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D. KOUMANA-MAR SAWA
5) The village of Koumana contained once a monastery church of Mar Giwargis. A new modern church is now built on top of it. But further to the East, across the river Sapna, high in the mountain, is a pilgrimage grotto dedicated to Mar Sawa. To obtain healings or children, people use to slide down from the rocks.
6) Finally, far away East, on the boards of the Great Zaab river, a place is known as Aloqa, and people indicate the emplacement of the convent, with behind it mountains with grottos and a source, but nothing definitive can be recognized.