Mor Gabriel Monastery

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Location:

Türkiye, Şanlı
geo:37.321777,41.538502
Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

397 / unknown

Class:

Temple or sanctuary
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=29023
wikidata:entity=Q1434981

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The Mor Gabriel Monastery [Dayro d-Mor Gabriel] was founded by Mor Şemuel -Samuel and his pupil Mor Şemu -Simon in 397 in the north-east of the village of Yayvantepe, formerly Kartmin, in the Southeastern Anatolia. Region, which Syriac authors termed Turabdin (Mardin-Midyat region).

See:

http://www.morgabriel.org/history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Gabriel_Monastery

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