Mor Hananyo Monastery
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Mor Hananyo Monastery (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܟܘܪܟܡܐ, Arabic: دير الزعفران, Turkish: Deyrülzafarân Monastery) is an important Syriac Orthodox monastery near the city of Mardin. The name means 'Saffron Monastery' from the warm colour of its stone. The monastery aquired its present name from Saint Hananyo (Ananias in its Greek form), Metropolitan of Kfartuta from 793 to 800. Saint Hananyo renovated the monastery 793.
Founded in 493 AD, the monastery was formerly the seat of the patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1160 until 1932 where it relocated to Damascus.
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