Mor Mattai Monastery
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title:
Mor Mattai Monastery
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Dayro d-Mor Mattai is a Syriac Orthodox Church monastery on Mount Alfaf in northern Iraq, 20 kilometers northeast of the city of Mosul. It is recognized as one of the oldest Christian monasteries in existence and the oldest Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world. The monastery was famous for the number of monks and scholars it housed, and for its large library and considerable collection of Syriac Christian manuscripts. Today, it is an archbishopric; the current archbishop is Mor Timothius Mousa
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Syriac Orthodox Monastery in Iraq
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Mattai_Monastery
date created:
2006-01-01T22:12:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:29:22Z
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