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St. Simeon’s Monastery - Antakya, July.2010
St. Simeon’s Monastery sits on a hill, that is 479 meters high, in the borders of the Aknehir region, The octagonal courtyard of the monastery, which was built in 6th century AD, contains a column made of a natural rock located in the middle. St. Simeon arrived in the monastery in 541 AD and died in 592.
One early Christian monk, St. Simeon, spent forty
years atop a column in the middle of a monastery built in the 6th
century AD on a tall hill overlooking the valley and river below.
Today’s ruins still show the base of the column, which had been carved
from the mountain top, and the surrounding churches built around the
octagonal center of the monastery. This monastery marks the beginning of
the Christian monastic tradition, later exported to Italy. Today, we can
view not only the city below from the ruins of this favorite pilgrimage
site, but also a new windmill farm currently under construction to take
advantage of the ever-present breezes. |
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