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The founder of The Abraham Collection is Mr Isak Abraham, born in 1978 to the late Mr Jacob and Mrs Alice Abraham.
Abraham belongs to an old Syriac-Orthodox family within the Melke Mire tribe, originating from the village, ’Kfar Shomac’, (ܟܦܰܪܫܳܡܰܥ) outside the City of Midyat in Upper Mesopotamia, now in South-East Turkey.
The family moved into the City of Midyat (ܡܕܝܕ) in the eighteen century and then settled in the ‘Shawtho du Qalatch’ (ܫܰܘܬܼܳܐ ܕܘ ܩܰܠܰܓ݉) neigbourhood. After hundreds of year in Midyat the family emigrated first to Kamishly in northern Syria, where they stayed to the late 70s, before once more emigrating to Sweden. They found their new home in the Capital City of Stockholm.
The Abraham Collection is a private, non-profit family collection formed during more than 25 years. The aim of the Collection is to collect and preserve the written cultural heritage of the Assyrian/Aramaic people of the Orient. The Collection houses handwritten and handmade Manuscripts, Coins, Medals, Seals, Stamps and Objects with syriac inscriptions.
The Abraham Collection have syriac manuscripts from ca AD 500 to Present Time. We collect the written cultural heritage from all our Non-Arab Middleeastern communities and make no distinction or discrimination. We aim to have manuscripts and objects from all various syriac-speaking communities as; Assyrians, Arameans, Syriacs, Chaldeans, Maronites, Melkites, Catholics, Protestants etc.
We co-work with scholars and universities around the World to provide the best care and study of the collected Manuscripts and Objects. The aim is to collect, preserve and make the heritage available to a broad audiance and to prevent the Heritage to be lost and scattered.