Choziba

monastery · 300 AD – 2099 AD

A desert monastery, founded in the fifth century CE, which was located where the 19th-century Greek Orthodox monastery of Deir Mar Jirys now stands on the north cliffs above the Wadi Qelt/Kelt in the West Bank, nearly 5km west from the center of modern Jericho.

Coordinates

31.84408, 35.41178

Also known as

Deir Mar Jiryis (en), Deir Mar Jiryis (en), Deir Mar Jirys (en), Deir Mar Jirys (en)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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