Church of Saint Simeon Stylites erected in the sixth century, was the popular pilgrim destination in the sixth century. It consists of four three-aisled basilicas converging on the saint’s pillar.
See:
- Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929
- P. Canivet, Le monachisme syrien selon Théodoret de Cyr , in: Théologie historique 42; 1977
- David Frankfurter, Stylites and Phallobatēs: Pillar Religions in Late Antique Syria, Vigiliae Christianae 44/2 , 1990, 168–98.
- http://www.sacred-destinations.com/syria/st-simeon-church
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Simeon_Stylites
