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Location:

  • Lebanon, Baalbek
  • geo:34.007004,36.204266
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 400~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69262

Annotations

The ruins of basilica church in front of the Jupiter temple discovered by German expedition was built at the end of the fourth or the beginnig of the fifth century. It was made of  stones from the damaged  Jupiter temple and was oriented as Pagan temples i.e . with the aps at west and the main entrance at the east. This was three-aisled church.

See:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, pp. 72-74

Nearby

Temple court, Jupiter Temple, Baalbek

Temple court, Jupiter Temple, Baalbek

Baalbek, museum

Museum of Baalbek

Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter, Tunnel

Baalbek, Temple of Jupiter, Tunnel


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