Konak (Hakkari)

	Konak
Basic data
Province (il) :	Hakkari
District ( ilçe ) :	Hakkari
Coordinates :	37 ° 39 ' N , 43 ° 47' E Coordinates: 37 ° 38 '35 " N , 43 ° 47' 22" E
Residents :	38 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90)
Postal code :	30800
License plate :

Mar Shalita, Cathedral of the Catholicos Patriarch in Qodchanis

Konak (formerly Qodchanis or Karakuş , also Qudshanes , Qudshanis , Kochanes or Koçanis ) is a village in the district of Hakkâri in the Turkish province of the same name . Konak is located about 20 km northeast of the provincial capital Hakkâri. According to the last census, Konak had 38 inhabitants (as of December 2009). The population consisted mainly of Christian Assyrians until the First World War .

Church history

From the end of the 17th century until the Christian exodus in 1915, a Catholicos , who was independent from the Pope in Rome, resided in this inaccessible place - patriarch of the East Syrian "Church of the East" , namely the representative of the younger line ("Patriarchate of the Mountains"). His official name was "Mar Shimun" throughout. Most recently from Qudshanis are Shimun XXI. ( Killed by Simko Schikak abroad in 1918 ), Shimun XXII. and Shimun XXIII. (both died in exile).

Interior of the Mar Shalita Cathedral

The Mar Shalita church in Qudshanis served as a framework for pontifical services ( East Syrian rite ) and also as a burial place for the Catholikoi up to Shimun XX. († 1903).

Patriarchal Library

Western visitors found the book collection of the Patriarchate in Qudshanis disappointing. It comprised only about 60 volumes. But it contained a work of extraordinary importance: the only surviving old copy of Nestorius' Liber Heraclidis from the 12th century. The manuscript ( O ) itself has apparently been destroyed in the meantime; a copy made in 1889 for the American John H. Shedd († 1895), who worked in Urmia , by the local priest Osha ^c na Sarau († around 1915) in Qudshanis is also missing ( U ) . This in turn served at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as the basis for four copies that finally ended up in libraries in the West, including the one that came to Heinrich Goussen and is now in Strasbourg (Ms. 4119). A second copy of O that Paul Bedjan acquired is also lost.

The collection in Qudshanis also included a copy of the “History of Mar Yahballaha III. and Rabban Bar Sauma ”. A handwritten manuscript (burial rituals, dated 1765) by the Catholicos patriarch Shimun XV. (1740–1780) is now in Saint Petersburg.

literature

Michel Chevalier: Les montagnards chrétiens du Hakkâri et du Kurdistan septentrional . Dépt. de Géographie de l'Univ. de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 1985, 100f. 225f. 255f. ISBN 2-901165-13-3
Helga Anschütz : Mar Shallita. The old Patriarchal Church of Qodshanes in the Hakkari Mountains . In: Kyrios (1968) 13-23.
Luise Abramowski : Investigations on the Liber Heraclidis of Nestorius (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 242 / Subs. 22). Louvain 1963.
David Wilmshurst: The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 . (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 582 / Subs. 104). Peeters, Leuven 2000, 295f.
William Ainger Wigram: The cradle of mankind. Life in Eastern Kurdistan . London 1922.
Anton Baumstark : The Strasbourg Nestorios handwriting . In: Oriens Christianus 3 (1903) 516-520.
Ramazan Turgut: Koçanis - Üç Asırlık Nesturi Patrikhane Merkezi (1600-1915) // Qudshanis: Three Centuries-old Nestorian Patriarchal Center (1600-1915) . In: Uluslararası Tarihte Hakkari Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı. Ankara 2016, pp. 19–34.

Web links

August Thiry: Qodshanes in Hakkari with photos of the state in 2007.
Jelle Verheij: Kocanis, Hakkâri ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Description and photos (2005) of the village and the Patriarchal Church.
Jelle Verheij, church and building of the Patriarchate

Individual evidence

^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 11, 2010
↑ James Farwell Coakley: Manuscripts for sale: Urmia, 1890-2 . In: Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 20, 2 (2006) 3-17, here 3.
^ Herman Teule - Grigory Kessel - Stephen Sado: The Mikhail Sado Collection of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Petersburg . In: Eastern Christians and their Written Heritage . Ed. by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala [u. a.]. Leuven [u. a.] 2012, 49.

[Infobox_Ort_in_der_Türkei.EinwohnerOrt-1] Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 11, 2010

[2] James Farwell Coakley: Manuscripts for sale: Urmia, 1890-2 . In: Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 20, 2 (2006) 3-17, here 3.

[3] Herman Teule - Grigory Kessel - Stephen Sado: The Mikhail Sado Collection of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Petersburg . In: Eastern Christians and their Written Heritage . Ed. by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala [u. a.]. Leuven [u. a.] 2012, 49.