Father Tumas, a Syrian Orthodox monk, leads a group of young men during an afternoon prayer service as they sing the daily hymns at Mor Gabriel monastery in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turykey on Saturday, February 8, 2003. The monastery, built around 397AD, is the oldest active Syrian Othodox monastery and serves as the seat of the Metropolitan Bishop of Tur Abdin. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern...
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Father Tumas, a Syrian Orthodox monk, leads a group of young men during an afternoon prayer service as they sing the daily hymns at Mor Gabriel monastery in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turykey on Saturday, February 8, 2003. The monastery, built around 397AD, is the oldest active Syrian Othodox monastery and serves as the seat of the Metropolitan Bishop of Tur Abdin. 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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