Churches & Cathedrals
Religious Sites
Mor Gabriel Monastery
Mor Gabriel Monastery (Syriac: Dayro d-Mor Gabriel; Turkish: Deyrülumûr), founded in AD 397, stands today as one of the world’s oldest surviving Christian monasteries and the oldest Syriac Orthodox monastery still in continuous use. Perched on the rocky Tur Abdin plateau in southeastern Turkey, roughly 20 kilometers east of Midyat in Mardin Province, it has […]