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Deir Mar Yuhanna al-Shuwayr (“Monastery
of Saint John the Baptist at Shuwayr”)
Khonchara, Lebanon 1000 Arabic and Greek Manuscripts  A monk of the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist point out architectural details in the masonry work on the outer wall of the monastery’s church. © HMML 2008. The Monastery of Saint John the Baptist sits high up in the hills north of Beirut. For 300 years it has been the home of the oldest monastic congregation in the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, the Chouerite Basilian Order (“Chouerite” comes from the French transliteration of the traditional name of the place). The Melkite Greek Catholic Church descends from the first church in Antioch, and is that part of the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Church in communion with Rome. The first members of the Chouerite Basilians came from the Orthodox monastery at Balamand in northern Lebanon around 1700. After being formally constituted as a religious congregation, they established the first truly indigenous Arabic-language printing press in the Middle East. HMML is fortunate to have an early 19th century prayer book from the Chouerite press in its Rare Book Collection. Digitization of the Chouerite manuscripts began in 2006 and concluded in summer 2008. The collection consists of almost 1000 manuscripts in Arabic and Greek. Learn more about the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church.
Finding Manuscripts from This Project in OLIVER, HMML's Online Manuscript Database
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