Mar Matte

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Mar Matte (Saint Matthew's Monastery), is located atop Mt. Maqloub in Northern Iraq. About 20 km from Mosul, Mar Matte was founded in 363 CE by a Christian called Matthew who was fleeing persecution from Diyarbakir, in what is today Turkey. A Kurd, Matthew joined a small Christian community already located atop Maqloub and under his leadership it became a true monastic community. It is today noted as one of the oldest Christian Monasteries in existence. It is further noted for a considerable collection of Syriac Christian manuscripts. (Michael Goldfarb, Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005).

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