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of Damascus, or Yohannan, bishop of Kaysun, came from the monastery.

Armenian period

At the end of the eleventh century, the region had come under control of the Armenian Kogh Vasil, whose wife, together with a vassal of Kogh, Kurtig, seems to have evicted the Syriac monks and granted it to Armenian monks. The monastery later also became the burial place of Kogh Vasil and became associated with the dynastic identity of the ruling house.

The monastery became with Ark'akaghin, Drazark

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