[NYer]

Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (the monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian has stood at the eastern fringes of the Anti-Lebanon mountains since at least the sixth century. Thought to have been built on the remnants of a Roman watchtower, today it resembles a storybook castle perched on the edge of a steep precipice overlooking the Syrian desert.

Map showing location of Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (contour map courtesy of Steven Batiuk)

The first reference to the foundation is in a manuscript dated 586CE that is now in the British Library in London.

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