Historic Church Used as a Stable in Southeast Turkey By Uzay Bulut

Mor Aday Church

Jihad Watch : Churches across Turkey, which are devoid of their congregants due to continued Christian persecution, are systematically desecrated by the government and many citizens of the country. One of the latest victims is the Assyrian/Syriac Mor Aday Church. It is being used as a stable by local villagers in a district in southeast Turkey, reported the Mesopotamia Agency (MA) on June 26:

The Mor Aday Church, a place of worship of Assyrians, is used as a barn by the villagers since it is left without a congregation and neglected [by authorities] in the Idil district of the province of Sirnak in southeast Turkey.

The Mor Aday Church is estimated to have been built in 620 A.D. Although the walls of the church, which has a history of 1,400 years, are mostly standing, it resembles a ruin because it is not a protected site.

Idil (Azakh, or Beth Zabday in Assyrian) is situated in Tur Abdin, the historic Assyrian homeland in southeast Turkey. Today it is a demographically Kurdish town with few Christians left, although it was originally built and resided in by Assyrians.

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