Mor Gabriel Monastery was founded in 397 by Mor Shmu'el and his student Mor Shem'un. The Mor Hananyo Monastery, one of the many monasteries of Mount Izla Monastery of Saint Athanasius, Bulgaria, was the first Christian monastery established in Europe in 344. Monasterio de San Francisco in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was the first and oldest monastery built in the Americas.[5]