Mar Samuel, Simeon
monastery · 300 AD – 640 AD
The oldest surviving Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world founded in A.D. 397 by Mor Shmu'el (Samuel) and his student Mor Shem'un (Simon) on the ruins of an ancient Assyrian temple.
- Coordinates
- 37.32179, 41.53848
- Also known as
- Mar Gabriel (en), Mar Gabriel (en), Mar Samuel Simeon (en)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)