Zuqnin Monastery

The Zuqnin Monastery was an ancient Christian monastery north of Diyarbakir ( Amida ) in the present province of Diyarbakir in eastern part of Turkey. John of Ephesus was here ordained 529 of John of Tella. About this monastery was written around the year 775 around the chronicle of Zuqnin. The library of the monastery came from scholars from the region and contained many valuable books of Eusebius, Socrates, John of Ephesus and the Chronicle of Zuqnin.

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