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Mor Gabriel

Mardin · Historic Sites

Miniature relief of Mor Gabriel
AI drawing · Open data

Tur Abdin means “the mountain of the servants of God” in Syriac. When a land is given such a name, the life lived there is expected to carry the weight of that name too… So how does a monastery bear that weight for more than sixteen hundred years? Looking at Mor Gabriel, we understand that the answer is patience.