An early morning view of the 6th century "Virgin Mary Church" in the village of Hah in the Tur Abdin region of souteastern Turkey on Friday, April 18, 2003. Hah is one of the last remaining Suryani villages in the region. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so some 300 years...
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An early morning view of the 6th century "Virgin Mary Church" in the village of Hah in the Tur Abdin region of souteastern Turkey on Friday, April 18, 2003. Hah is one of the last remaining Suryani villages in the region. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so some 300 years before the Romans.
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