Shui Pang

China / Xinjiang / Urumqi /
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The ruined site of a long-abandoned Nestorian Christian monastery north of Turfan. In 1905 an expedition under Theodor Bartus and Albert von Le Coq found a trove of Christian manuscripts in Syriac, Persian, and other languages (mostly written in Syriac script) in the monastery's ruins. Among them were a 5th-century psalter, fragments of Matthew and the Nicene Creed, texts dealing with the finding of the True Cross by the empress Helena and the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus, and a Pahlavi Persian translation of several Psalms, dated to the mid-sixth or seventh century. At present the site features only some desolate ruins of its structures.
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Coordinates:   42°59'22"N   89°12'54"E
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