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Kharab ShamsKharab ShamsBurj HeydarBashamra ChurchSimkhar

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Burj al Qāş
  • geo:36.354797,36.94273
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • 492 / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=67822

Annotations

The Eastern Church or Qal'at Kalota Church located 20 km northwest of Aleppo was a three-aisled basilica with a semicircular apse. A dated Greek inscription above the west portal names 492 as the year of completion.

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 67

Nearby

Kalat Kalota, West Church

Fifth century church.

Qalaat Kalota, Martyrium

VIth century martyrium.Kalat Kalota.

Qalaat Kalota

Kalouta - St. Maroun citadel. Early Christian monastery. Saint Maroun Citadel. Qalota, Kaluta, Kalouta, Qalat Kalota, Qalaat Kalota, Kal`at Kalota, Kalat Kalota.


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