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Views of the walk to Deir Mar Musa from the west 
This was the only route into Deir Mar Musa for visitors until the early C21st and involved taking a rough track into the mountains from An Nabk for around 18 kilometres before hiking for another 2 kilometres along a watercourse to reach the monastery.
Type: Landscape
Tags: An Nabk, Deir Mar Musa, Landscape, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Syria
Views looking east from Deir Mar Musa
Views looking eastwards from the central courtyard of Deir Mar Musa over the desert.
Type: Landscape
Tags: An Nabk, Deir Mar Musa, Desert, Landscape, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Syria
Dayr al Hayek 
Dayr al Hayek means "the monastery of the weaver" and is a cave south of Deir Mar Musa. The archaeological evidence found in the cave suggests that it was inhabited by a hermit in the early phase of the monastery when it was a lava. This means that the monks lived in cells/caves around the central monastic buildings and came together only for communal prayer at specific times. The cave was named due to the fact that a loom was discovered there. A new building now envelops the cave as an annexe to the main monastery of Deir Mar Musa.
Type: Landscape
Tags: An Nabk, Cave, Dayr al Hayek, Deir Mar Musa, Lavra, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Monastery, Syria
Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi
These views of the monastery are from the south, looking north. The western part of the monastery on this side is believed to date back to the Roman period and is now used as a kitchen and the south eastern part is a new addition to the monastic library and additional bathroom facilities. On the northern side of the monastery is the chapel, which dated back to the C6th although the roof was raised and it was altered in the C11th. The fortified section to the west has been attributed to the C14th-C15th.
Type: Architecture
Tags: An Nabk, Architecture, Church, Deir Mar Musa, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Monastery, Syria
Courtyard view of Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi
View of the monastery courtyard.
Type: Architecture
Tags: An Nabk, Architecture, Church, Deir Mar Musa, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Monastery, Syria
The Deir Mar Musa Censer
This is the text of a lecture given on the occasion of a facsimile of the censer taken from Deir Mar Musa by Richard Burton in the C19th being returned to the Community at a reception at the British Council in Damascus on September 27th 2001. The images cannot be included as the copyright for those rests with the British Museum.
Type: Text
Tags: An Nabk, British Museum, Censer, Deir Mar Musa, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Monastery, Nabk, Richard Burton, St. Moses, St. Moses the Abyssinian, St. Moses the Ethiopian, Syria