Reason for the name
Named after St. Jacob the son of Zubidi, who was named the Great Jacob.
Builder
Herod the Great.
History
Before Islam.
Shape and details
The monastery is one of the most beautiful monasteries and the largest in the Old Town, its area is one sixth of the area of the Old Town and made the Armenians a home for their patriarchate and a school of theology, also a library containing manuscripts and many books and miscellaneous. While the church in the monastery, it contains circular
decorations in an oriental style and blue walls because of its blue tile and floor with carpets and lamps of gold and silver, facade of the building construction court. The monastery contains 500 water tanks, in which there are a
number of churches such as the monastery of Zaytouna “for nuns”, halls and museums, including a school for girls.
The library in the monastery contains 4,000 manuscripts and 30,000 printed books, this is the appreciation of Aref al-Arif in 1947, as the monastery was one of the first to own a printing press in the early 20th century.
One of the historians reported that the monastery was a garage and then a Romania and named the old monastery of St. Jacob Zubdi then became the Armenians rent.
The monastery built in the year 613 AD, and the church built around the second half of the twelfth century, the church renovated in the thirteenth century AD 1300 AD, The monastery also called: the Monastery of St. James the Great and the Monastery of St. Jacob the Zubdi.