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Mor Hananyo Monastery

The Mor Hananyo Monastery, also called Monastery of Saint Ananias, Deyrulzafaran or Dayro d-Kurkmo, and in Turkish, Deyrulzafaran Manastırı, commonly known in English as the Saffron Monastery, is one of the most renowned monasteries of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Located about 3 km (1.9 mi) east of Mardin, Turkey, in the Syriac cultural region Tur Abdin, it has served as a spiritual, cultural, and intellectual centre of Syriac Orthodox Christianity for centuries. From 1166 to 1932, it functioned as the Patriarchal See of Antioch, housing 53 patriarchs and metropolitans in its burial chambers. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Hananyo_Monastery https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Dûrzan cîrano · Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deyrulzaferan.jpg

Mardin, Türkiye

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