Kirklar Church
Kirklar Church
Kırklar Church, or Mor Behnam, is an Assyrian church built in Mardin in 569. In the 12th century, when the original Kırklar Church in Mardin was converted into a mosque, the name of Mor Behnam Church was changed to “Kırklar Church”.
The church has three entrance doors with fine stonework mihrabs, four hundred year old wooden mihrab doors, 1500 year old curtains printed with root paint, a bell tower house in its large courtyard, and a divan with examples of stone carvings worked like lace. In 1170 the bones of forty martyrs were brought to this church.
