Midyat, Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey : Mor Timotheus Samuel Aktas, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tur Abdin at the Mor Gabriel Monastery. Founded

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Midyat, Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey : Mor Timotheus Samuel Aktas, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tur Abdin at the Mor Gabriel Monastery. Founded in 397 AD, it is the oldest living Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world.

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