Mor Dimet Church

The Mor Dimet Church (Turkish: Mor Dimet Kilisesi, Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܕܝܡܛ, romanized: ʿyta d mr) is a Syriac Orthodox church in Midyat, Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey. The Early Christianity church was restored, and reopened in 2021.

The Mor Dimet Church is a Syriac Orthodox church built in Early Christianity and located at the village (administratively: a neighborhood) of İzbırak (in Syriac: Zāz) in Midyat district, Mardin Province, southeastern Turkey.

Once, around one hundred Assyrian Turkish families lived in the village. In the early 1990s, the Assyrians of the last Zaz village in the Tur Abdin region left their village due to terrorist attacks. Following the emigration of the villagers to Europe and the United States, the village turned into a ghost town in 1993. A priest and a nun have been living in the church for years, and protected the village. In 2001, a house and a bell tower were built in the church courtyard. The government decided the demolition of these additional structures in 2012.

The Assyrians, who returned home when peace was established in the region, started a project for the restoration of the church. After two years of work, the church was reopened...