The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 friars and 400 Christians. Yet the existence of the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, the fifth century ...

Midyat Governor's Office has allocated a budget of 1 million Turkish Liras for the restoration of the road leading to the Syriacs' Mor Gabriel Monastery, a move viewed by the Syriac community as ...

Mardin (Agenzia Fides) – The lands belonging to the ancient Monastery of Mor Gabriel, situated in the south-eastern Turkish province of Mardin, have at last been returned to the Syrian-Orthodox ...

Turkey’s Syriac minority in Mardin province welcomes the imminent return of legal ownership of the Mor Gabriel Monastery to their community, a monastery official told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.

Arinc says the assembly of foundations, the decision-making body of the Directorate General of Foundations, decided to return land to Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation. ANKARA (AA) - Turkish Deputy ...

Established in 397 A.D., the Mor Gabriel Monastery bears exceptional significance for Syriacs, as it stands on par with Muslims' "Al Aqsa Mosque" for the Syriac community, trains half of all their ...

Muslim leaders are trying to destroy it, and have sued the monastery for alleged proselytism. A spiritual and cultural center for the Syriac Orthodox, it still uses ancient Aramaic, the language ...

The group "Aktion Mor Gabriel" in Germany, held a protest demonstration in Berlin (AINA 1-27-2009) against Turkey's attempts to confiscate the Mor Gabriel Monastery. According to official figures from ...

Hundreds of Syriac Orthodox Christians gathered at Mor Gabriel Monastery in Tur Abdin in Mardin (Mêrdîn), southeast Turkey on Saturday to honour Saint Mor Gabriel, a revered figure known for his ...

MIDYAT, Turkey (Reuters) - In a remote village near the Turkish-Syrian border, a land dispute with neighboring villages is threatening the future of one of the world's oldest functioning Christian ...