Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas
Monastery · School or library
monastery in Palestine
Location: 31.7050, 35.3310 · Pleiades 687969
What this place is
- Monastery — the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas — "monastery in Palestine"
- School or library — the lavra's scriptorium and library, where John of Damascus wrote and where Greek, Georgian and Arabic books went on being copied long after him
Who is recorded here
- Sabbas the Sanctified death · AD 532
- John of Damascus death · AD 749
What happened here
In art
About the place
The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba and historically as the Great Laura of Saint Sabas, is a Greek Orthodox Christian monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the Bethlehem Governorate of Palestine in the West Bank, at a point halfway between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea.
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