“Guarding sacred spaces in Syria and Iraq where Christians and Muslims unify in prayer”

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Deir Mar Musa

Deir Mar Musa

By Abu Jens Petzold
I belong to a small Christian monastic community of nuns and monks who contemplate Islam and interact with its different currents. Our community was founded in 1991, after the restoration of Deir [Monastery] Mar Musa in Syria. The site is an old sacred one, named after Mar Musa al-Habashi [Saint Moses the Abyssinian]. Already in the 6th century it was inhabited by hermits…
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