Published on December 20, 2024 at 07:57. / Modified on December 20, 2024 at 08:00.
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It is a refuge nestled in a fold of the earth’s crust. To get there, you have to park your car after traveling long kilometers in the Syrian desert. Then we climb steps dug into the rock for around twenty minutes. Once you arrive up there, you have to bow to cross the small door of the Saint-Moses-the-Abyssinian monastery, Deir Mar Moussa al-Habachi, one of the oldest in Syria.
At the end of the day, the monks and nuns – Mar Moussa is a rare mixed monastery – of this small Syriac Catholic community are in meditation session. Dressed in long white tunics, they lean against a wall of the small basilica of Mar Moussa, built in 1051 on the ruins of a Roman fortification. Inscriptions in Arabic, Syriac and Greek, with Muslim and Christian connotations, cover the walls. These are among the oldest frescoes of the Christian East.
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