Midyat, Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey : Mor Timotheus Samuel Aktas, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tur Abdin receives visitors at the Mor Gabriel M

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

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