Mar Saba Monastery built into the desert cliffs

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Mar Saba Monastery

دير مار سابا

Photo: Mussi Katz from Israel · Public domain

About this place

An ancient monastery clinging to a cliff in the desert east of Bethlehem.

  • In Bethlehem
  • 12 km from Bethlehem centre

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