An older Suryani man prays during the afternoon mass at Mor Barsavmo Church in Midyat, in the Tur Abdin region of souteastern Turkey on Monday, April 21, 2003. During the fifty days leading up to Easter the Suryani hold three masses daily. 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...
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An older Suryani man prays during the afternoon mass at Mor Barsavmo Church in Midyat, in the Tur Abdin region of souteastern Turkey on Monday, April 21, 2003. During the fifty days leading up to Easter the Suryani hold three masses daily. 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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