The Monastery of Mor Abrohom and Mor Hobel lies on a hill about one kilometre East of the city of Midyat. The monastic establishment is enclosed by tough modern walls and it includes three churches, two of which dates before the Arab conquest. According to the local tradition, it was founded in the fifth century as a daughter house of the major monastery of Mor Gabriel by two monks, Abrohom and Hobel. Abraham in question is the fourth-century miracle-worker of the Highest Mountain (in the Ṭūr ‘Abdīn), the master of M. Barsawmo, the Chief of the Mourners. Hobel was a pillar saint (stylite) who lived in the time of Philoxenos of Mabbugh, whom he was able to embrace by making his pillar bend down. Another tradition affirms that its monastic church was among those built by the emperor Anastasius in the Ṭūr ‘Abdīn (Keser Kayaalp, Elif. Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021: 209).