Mar Saba
The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba and historically as the Great Laura of Saint Sabas, is a Greek Orthodox Christian monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the Bethlehem Governorate of Palestine in the West Bank, at a point halfway between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: monastery in Palestine
- Also known as: “Al Mird”, “Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas”, “Hycania”, “Hyrcania”, “Khirbet Mird”, and “Mār Sābā”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hurkania and Har Montar.
Hurkania
Archaeological site
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kedar and Ovnat.
Kedar
Village
Ovnat
Village
Ubeidiya
Town
Mar Saba
- Categories: monastery, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.71947° or 31° 43′ 10″ north
Longitude
35.36502° or 35° 21′ 54″ east
Elevation
214 metres (702 feet)
Open location code
8G3QP998+Q2
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Mar Saba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير مار سابا”
- Belarusian: “Лаўра Савы Асвечанага”
- Catalan: “Gran Laura de Sant Saba”
- Catalan: “Laura de Sant Saba”
- Catalan: “Mar Saba”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Mar Saba”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Sant Saba”
- Chinese: “玛尔萨巴”
- Czech: “Klášter svatého Sávy”
- Czech: “Mar Saba”
- Dutch: “Mar Saba”
- Esperanto: “Mar Saba”
- Esperanto: “Monaĥejo Mar Saba”
- French: “Laure de Saint-Sabas”
- French: “Mar Saba”
- French: “Monastère de Mar Saba”
- French: “Monastere Mar Saba”
- French: “monastère Mar Saba”
- French: “Saint-Sabas”
- Georgian: “საბაწმიდის ლავრა”
- Georgian: “საბაწმინდის ლავრა”
- German: “Mar Saba”
- German: “Sabas-Kloster”
- Greek: “Ιερά Λαύρα του Οσίου Σάββα του Ηγιασμένου”
- Greek: “Ἱερὰ Λαύρα τοῦ Ὁσίου Σάββα τοῦ Ἡγιασμένου”
- Hebrew: “מנזר מר סבא”
- Hebrew: “מנזר מרסבא”
- Hungarian: “Mar Saba”
- Indonesian: “Mar Saba”
- Italian: “Mar Saba”
- Italian: “Monastero Mar Saba”
- Japanese: “マル・サバ（聖サバス）修道院”
- Japanese: “マル・サバ”
- Japanese: “マル・サバ修道院”
- Korean: “마르 사바”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mar Saba-klosteret”
- Norwegian: “Mar Saba-klosteret”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ”
- Persian: “دیر مار سابا”
- Polish: “klasztor Mar Saba”
- Polish: “Ławra św. Saby”
- Polish: “Mar Saba”
- Portuguese: “Mar Saba”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Mar Saba”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de São Sabas”
- Russian: “Лавра Саввы Освященного”
- Russian: “Мар Саба”
- Serbian: “Manastir Svetog Save Osvećenog”
- Serbian: “Манастир светог Саве Освећеног”
- Serbian: “Манастир Светог Саве Освећеног”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Manastir Svetog Save Osvećenog”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Manastiru Svetog Save Osvećenog”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mar Saba”
- Slovenian: “Mar Saba”
- Spanish: “Gran Laura de San Sabas”
- Spanish: “Laura de San Sabas”
- Spanish: “Mar Saba”
- Spanish: “monasterio de Mar Saba”
- Spanish: “monasterio de San Sabas”
- Swedish: “Mar Saba”
- Turkish: “Mar Saba Manastırı”
- Ukrainian: “Лавра Сави Освяченого”
- Urdu: “دیر مار سابا”
- Urdu: “مار سابا”
- Western Frisian: “Mar Saba”
- “Mar Saba”
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