Mar Saba seen from the view point

Mar Saba seen from the bottom of the gorge

Mar Saba in the 19th century

Mar Saba is a Greek Orthodox monastery located near Bethlehem, Israel (Palestine), and overlooks the Kidron River. It was founded by Saint Sabas of Cappadocia in the year 439. While it currently houses only 20 monks, during the 7th century it may have held as many as 4000.^[1] It is considered to be one of the oldest inhabited monasteries in the world, and still maintains many of its 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 2864 KB) Mar Saba is a Greek Orthodox monastery located near Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and overlooks the Kidron River File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 2864 KB) Mar Saba is a Greek Orthodox monastery located near Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and overlooks the Kidron River File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1705 KB) Mar Saba is a Greek Orthodox monastery located near Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and overlooks the Kidron River File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1705 KB) Mar Saba is a Greek Orthodox monastery located near Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and overlooks the Kidron River File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x760, 224 KB) Kloster Mar Saba, zwischen 1890 und 1900 Quelle: Bibliothek des US-Kongress http://hdl. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x760, 224 KB) Kloster Mar Saba, zwischen 1890 und 1900 Quelle: Bibliothek des US-Kongress http://hdl. ... The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian organization in the world (or third if one sees Protestantism as a single entity). ... Monastery of St. ... Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم   house of meat; Standard Hebrew בית לחם house of bread, Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem; Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a city in the West Bank under Palestinian Authority considered a central hub of Palestinian cultural and tourism industries. ... The Holy Land or Palestine Showing not only the Old Kingdoms of Judea and Israel but also the 12 Tribes Distinctly, and Confirming Even the Diversity of the Locations of their Ancient Positions and Doing So as the Holy Scriptures Indicate, a geographic map from the studio of Tobiae Conradi... Saint Sabas (439 - 531), a Palestinian monk, born near Caesarea of Cappadocia. ... Cappadocia in 188 BC In ancient geography, Cappadocia (from Persian: Katpatuka meaning the land of beautiful horses, Greek: Καππαδοκία; see also List of traditional Greek place names; Turkish Kapadokya) was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). ... Events Licinia Eudoxia, wife of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III, is granted the rank of Augusta following the birth of their daughter Eudocia. ... The 7th century is the period from 601 - 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ...

Monastery has well preserved remains of a body believed to be Saint Saba.

Mar Saba is where Morton Smith found a copy of a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria which contains excerpts of a Secret Gospel of Mark. Morton Smith (1915 May 29, Philadelphia, - 1991 July 11, New York City) was a Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. ... The discovery in 1958 of a fragment of an unknown Secret Gospel of Mark provoked a storm of recrimination, denial and abuse. ... Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens), was the first member of the Church of Alexandria to be more than a name, and one of its most distinguished teachers. ... The Secret Gospel of Mark refers to a non-canonical gospel which is the subject of the Mar Saba letter, a previously unknown letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria which Morton Smith claimed to have found transcribed into the endpapers of a 17th century printed edition of Ignatius. ...

Mar Saba is occasionally referred to as the Convent or Monastery of Santa Saba (cf. Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (1837) by John Lloyd Stephens). This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... Monastery of St. ... John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805–October 13, 1852) was a American explorer, writer, and diplomat. ...

Mar Saba was also the "home" of St John of Damascus (b.676 - d.749-754?) "St John the Damascene" was a key religious figure in the Iconoclastic Controversy, who in ca. 726 wrote letters to the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian refuting his edicts prohibiting the veneration of images or statues of Christ or other Christian icons. John who was born in Damascus and worked as a high financial officer to the Muslim Caliph Abdul Malik, eventually "heard" a higher calling and migrated to Palestine, where he retired and was ordained as a priest at the Monastery of Mar Saba. (See St John of Damascus) Literally, iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons and other sacred images or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. ... :For homonyms, see Leo III Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine V. Leo III the Isaurian (c. ... John of Damascus (Latin: Iohannes Damascenus or Johannes Damascenus also known as John Damascene, Chrysorrhoas, streaming with gold—i. ...