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Location:

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.330608,35.444187
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 500~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=31450

Annotations

The baptistery located to the west of the "Petra Church"  is a tree-room complex. In the centre is a cross-shaped baptismal font under a four-columned canopy.

Sources:

  1. Patricia Maynor Bikai, "The Churches of Byzantine Petra". Near Eastern Archaeology. 65 (4): 2002,  271–27 -https://www.jstor.org/stable/3210859

Relevant museums

Petra, Archaeological Museum

Petra, Archaeological Museum

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Petra, Byzantine Church of Virgin Mary

Byzantine Church.

Petra, Blue Chapel

Petra, Blue Chapel.

Petra, Ridge Church

Ridge Church.


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