Monastery Mor Gabriel | Tourist Attraction
Turkey
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- 4 months ago
- GPS:
- 37.32174, 41.53864
- Altitude:
- 0.0 masl
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Nice monastery and worth to visit. We stayed overnight too, at the parking lot. Very quiet. You have to take a guide, but it is free.
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Dayro d-Mor Gabriel was founded in 397 by the ascetic Mor Shmu'el (Samuel) and his student Mor Shem'un (Simon). According to tradition, Shem'un had a dream in which an Angel commanded him to build a House of Prayer in a location marked with three large stone blocks. When Shem'un awoke, he took his teacher to the place and found the stone the angel had placed. At this spot Mor Gabriel Monastery built.
Dayro d-Mor Gabriel is a working community set amongst gardens and orchards, and somewhat disfigured by 1960s residential accommodation. The monastery's primary purpose is to keep Syriac Orthodox Christianity (incl. the original language Aramaic) alive in the land of its birth by providing schooling, ordination of native-born monks.
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Entrance is actual 15 TYL. We had only turkish speaking guide. Maybe ask for someone with language skills as they seems to provide lot of Information.
Report Check-InNice monastery and worth to visit. We stayed overnight too, at the parking lot. Very quiet. You have to take a guide, but it is free.
Here a short description:
Dayro d-Mor Gabriel was founded in 397 by the ascetic Mor Shmu'el (Samuel) and his student Mor Shem'un (Simon). According to tradition, Shem'un had a dream in which an Angel commanded him to build a House of Prayer in a location marked with three large stone blocks. When Shem'un awoke, he took his teacher to the place and found the stone the angel had placed. At this spot Mor Gabriel Monastery built.
Dayro d-Mor Gabriel is a working community set amongst gardens and orchards, and somewhat disfigured by 1960s residential accommodation. The monastery's primary purpose is to keep Syriac Orthodox Christianity (incl. the original language Aramaic) alive in the land of its birth by providing schooling, ordination of native-born monks.
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