🛕 Mor Bar Sauma Monastery

Turkey · Europe · 38.06°N, 38.80°E

The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery was a Syriac Orthodox monastery located between Gargar and Malatya in Turkey. The monastery served as the regular patriarchal residence from the eleventh century until the thirteenth century, and was eventually abandoned in the seventeenth century. It produced five patriarchs and forty-three metropolitan bishops. Between 1074 and 1283 several synods took place at the monastery.

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Country	Turkey
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	38.06°N, 38.80°E · view on map

Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is located in Turkey, in Europe.

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