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Location:

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.331188,35.44429
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 4xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=55221

Annotations

The Blue Chapel is a part of a complex consisting of the chapel and courtyard, atrium  According to P. M. Bikai the militarry barrack of the late fifth century was converted into a Christian chapel. It was small chapel which served rather for private ceremonies at the bishop`s residence or some welthy member of the local society.

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, Ridge Church

Ridge Church.

Petra, Baptystery at the Byzantine Church

Petra - The Byzantine Church - Baptistery.

Petra, Byzantine Church of Virgin Mary

Byzantine Church.


This object was added by Jona Lendering on 2018-07-22. Last update by Elżbieta on 2021-01-11. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/55221 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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