St.Jacob's Church Nisibis

Dear reader,nnLooks an awesome place, unfortunately I just visited the site behind its bars, since it is in the process of restoration, but for the years that it has been in good condition the architecture of this place.

Metropolitan Mor Yakup thinks that the church he prayed for in ascending Episcopal order is small and wants to build a new church. Thus, it was built in seven years between 313 and 320 years. According to the belief, an angel helped the building.nnThe students of Episcopal Mor Yakup started to build the Nusaybin School here when they returned to Nusaybin after attending the council meetings of Ephraim Christianity. They opened the school they founded on the basis of a temple left from Zoroastrians in 326, and Efraim directed this school for 38 years. In this school, philosophy, logic, literature, geometry, astronomy, medicine, law education were given. At the same time, many writings from Greek were translated into Syriac.nnThe characteristic of this school is that Nusaybin was an advanced educational center at that time. Until the Sassanids of Nusaybin School took Nusaybin in 363 BC. After that, the teaching staff of the school were scattered and the education in Syria continued. In the following years, the Byzantines were oppressed against the Nasturians, and Edessa School in Urfa was relocated to Nusaybin and this became the religious center of the Nasturs.nnThe monastery continued to function until the 19th century.

We are pleased that this place still stands.

Great place

Amazing place!