U.S. State Department Special Envoy to North and East Syria Nicholas Granger visits the Monastery of Virgin Mary in Tel Wardiyat, North and East Syria

HASAKAH, Syria — Within the coordination between the Syriac Union Party (SUP) in Syria and the U.S. State Department Special Envoy to North and East Syria Nicholas Granger about the situation of Syriac (Aramean-Chaldean-Assyrian) people, Granger visited the Syriac Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Tel Wardiyat in the countryside of Hasakah, North and East Syria.

Granger was accompanied with the SUP Co-Chair Nazira Goreya and member of SUP Executive Body Afram Ishak.

Granger and the accompanying delegation met with the monastery director and toured the monastery. Granger was briefed about the monastery history and the damage it was subjected to by the Islamic State (ISIS).

He commended the Syriac saints’ icons and history of the monastery.

Granger hoped to complete his tour in the region and visit the worship places of the Syriac people.