Deir Wartan

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Deir Wartan , the Wartan Monastery ( Arabic دير وارطان or دير القديس وارطان), is a monastery of the Roman Catholic Order of the Jesuits in the Syrian city ​​of Aleppo , which is subordinate to the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo . After 2003 the monastery played an important role in supplying Iraqi and later Syrian refugees. Since September 2012 it has been in ruins due to the effects of the war.

Location

The Deir Wartan monastery is located in the al-Midan district on the north side of al-Sanubri street (شارع الصنوبري, " Colophony Street") about 400 m northeast of the Armenian Catholic Trinity Church ( Zvartnots ) .

Surname

The monastery has the Armenian general Wartan Mamikonian ( Armenian Վարդան Մամիկոնյան , 387–451), who fell in the battle of Wartananz , as the patron saint . The name is often used as Deir Vartan reproduced what the Armenian pronunciation of Վ as voiced labiodental fricative [⁠ v ⁠] corresponds. This sound does not exist in Arabic. In the Arabic name (دير وارطان) the name of the saint begins with Wāw (ﻭ) And is used as a labio-velar approximant [⁠ w ⁠] such as in " Wadi " (واد) spoken.

history

The Vartan Monastery was built in 1936 by Jesuits in Aleppo to celebrate services with Catholics in the city. An Armenian Catholic school was opened in one wing, and it operated as the Anwar School until 1967 and again from 1973 to 1992. The school was run by the Monastery of Our Lady of Bzommar (Deir Saida, Lebanon ). The students continued their education in Bzommar or the Armenian Catholic school in Rome. The other part of the monastery was used for charitable and social projects by the Jesuits. In addition to the church, the monastery also had a school theater, youth playgrounds, fitness studios and clubs.

After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 , millions of Iraqi refugees came to Syria, many of them Christians. In 2008 the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) began working with Iraqi refugees in the Jesuit Education and Meeting Center (Deir Vartan Center). With the beginning of the civil war , internally displaced persons were added from 2011 , so that Iraqi and Syrian refugees of different faiths and origins came together here under one roof. As the hostilities in Aleppo became more and more threatening, the JRS closed the Jesuit education and meeting center Deir Vartan in August 2012 for security reasons and continued its work “in another location”. At the end of September 2012, the building was fought over by rebels and government forces and was badly damaged by mortar fire. Since there were no longer any refugees or employees present, no one was injured by them.

On April 10, 2013 on Faisal-Strasse (شارع فيصل) opened a health center of the monastery with various medical specialties in the center of Aleppo. The monastery itself is in ruins to this day.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monastery of St. Vartan (دير القديس وارطان, in Arabic). Qenshrin.com to http://www.alepposuryoye.com (editor of the encyclopedia of churches and monasteries).
  2. ^ Holding onto normality in Aleppo. Reliefweb, originally JRS (no longer available), December 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ Battles destroy JRS's Deir Vartan Center. Jesuits Worldwide, September 2012, accessed June 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Saint Vartan (Deir Vartan). Aid to the Church in Need, ACN International. Christians of Syria, ACN Syria, accessed June 17, 2020.
  5. ↑ Wave of destruction hits Jesuits too. Jesuit Mission, accessed June 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ افتتاح المركز الصحيّ في مركز دير وارطان ​​- حلب مميز - الأربعاء, 12 حزيران / يونيو 2013 12:23 ( Memento from November 6, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [The opening of the health center is something special in Aleppo]. Jespro.net, June 12, 2013.

Coordinates: 36 ° 13 '22.8 "  N , 37 ° 10' 5.4"  E