Mor Bar Sauma Monastery

Mor Bar Sauma Monastery
Location within Turkey
Monastery information
EstablishedMid-5th century
DisestablishedAfter 1675/1676
Dedicated toMōr Barṣawmō
Site
LocationKaplı Dağı, Adıyaman Province, Turkey
Coordinates38°1′1″N 38°49′53″E / 38.01694°N 38.83139°E / 38.01694; 38.83139
Public accessYes

The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery was a Syriac Orthodox monastery located between Gargar and Malatya in Turkey. The monastery served as the regular patriarchal residence from the eleventh century until the thirteenth century, and was eventually abandoned in the seventeenth century. It produced five patriarchs and forty-three metropolitan bishops. Between 1074 and 1283 several synods took place at the monastery.