Ma'alula

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It means the entrance in the Aramaic language. It is a rocky village located in the mountains. It is the house of two famous monasteries:

A) St. Sergius & Bacchus monastery : built in the fourth century A.D. and have valuable icons from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

B) St. Tecla monastery: People of all religions worship the shrine of St. Tecla who was one of the first saints in Christianity.

Up till now, the people of Ma'alula still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ