The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas,[Note 1] known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ, Arabic: دير مار سابا; Hebrew: מנזר מר סבא; Greek: Ἱερὰ Λαύρα τοῦ Ὁσίου Σάββα τοῦ Ἡγιασμένου) and historically as the Great Laura of Saint Sabas,[1] is a Greek Orthodox monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the Bethlehem Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank,[2] at a point halfway between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea.[3] The monks of Mar Saba and those of subsidiary houses are known as Sabaites.
Mar Saba is considered to be one of the oldest (almost) continuously inhabited monasteries in the world, and it maintains many of its ancient traditions. One in particular is the restriction on women entering the main compound. The only building that women can enter is the Women's Tower, near the main entrance.
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35.33111 The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, known in Arabic and Syriac as MarSaba (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ, Arabic: دير مار سابا; Hebrew: מנזר מר סבא; Greek:...
The MarSaba letter is a Greek document which scholar Morton Smith reported in 1960 that he had discovered in the library of the MarSaba monastery in...
Columbia University. He is best known for his reported discovery of the MarSaba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts...
version of the Gospel of Mark. The gospel is mentioned exclusively in the MarSaba letter, a document of disputed authenticity, which is said to have been...
wilderness where John the Baptist preached and baptized Jesus, the monastery at MarSaba, and Bethlehem—Clarel wants to accompany them, but he does not wish to...
He was the founder of several convents, most notably the one known as MarSaba, in Palestine. The saint's name is derived from Imperial Aramaic: סַבָּא...
of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, MarSaba, near Jerusalem on 4 December 749. A polymath whose fields of interest...
1256 and war grew out of a dispute concerning land in Acre then owned by MarSaba (the monastery of Saint Sabbas) but claimed by both Genoa and Venice. Initially...
Sabbas the Sanctified (†532) in the Kidron Valley (known in Syriac as MarSaba), is one of the most ancient and almost continuously functioning monasteries...
monastery of MarSaba. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Stephen lived the ascetic life at the Lavra of Saint Sabas in Palestine...
Palestine in this period, some were among the oldest in the world, including MarSaba, which is still in use to this day, Saint George's Monastery in Wadi Qelt...
Valley', for the rest of it – with at least the segment at the ancient MarSaba ('Saint Sabbas') monastery also known in the 19th century as Wadi er-Rahib...
Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia and even India and China.[citation needed] MarSaba organized the monks of the Judaean Desert in a monastery close to Bethlehem...
calligrapher and writer at MarSaba; foreman of Sabbas the Sanctified Basili Sabatsmindeli 8th century, monk, calligrapher and writer at MarSaba Makari of Leteti...
located in Cephallenia. Carpocrates is again mentioned in the controversial MarSaba letter (also called To Theodore), purportedly also by Clement of Alexandria...
cave at Nahal Heimar. Nabi Musa - Sunset in June 2022 The Monastery of MarSaba, near Bethlehem The Monastery of Saint George of Choziba, near Jericho...
Eastern Orthodox monasteries, for example, on Mount Athos in Greece and MarSaba monastery in the West Bank. Ethiopia (where a branch of the Orthodox church...
into eight-week cycles, was the invention of monastic hymnographers at MarSaba in Palestine and in Constantinople. It was formally accepted in the Quinisext...
literature. They were translated from a West Syriac manuscript into Greek at MarSaba monastery by Abbas Patrick and Abramius, then from Greek into Arabic, Georgian...
odes was introduced by composers within the school of Andrew of Crete at MarSaba. The nine odes of the kanon were dissimilar by their metrum. Consequently...
Antiochus Strategos, monk of MarSaba c. 650 (1991). Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (ed.). Antiochus Strategos of MarSaba., Capture of Jerusalem...
Mount Athos, Hilandar, and then via Thessaloniki to Serbia. While visiting MarSaba, he had been gifted the Trojeručica (the "Three-handed Theotokos"), an...
the Judean Desert in a monastery close to Bethlehem (483), now known as MarSaba, which is considered the mother of all monasteries of the Eastern Orthodox...
Byzantine era. Their monasteries, such as Saint George in Wadi Kelt and MarSaba in the Judaean Desert, are places of pilgrimage. In the 19th century the...
city, West Bank Chapel of the Shepherd's Field Bethlehem city, West Bank MarSaba al-Ubeidiya town, West Bank Monastery of Saints John and George of Choziba...
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