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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Turmānīn
  • geo:36.241982,36.823051
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 5xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69284

Annotations

The monastery complex of Termanin (Turmanin) occupied a crest of a knoll  in a branch of a road NE of modern Turmanin village.The ruins of Deir Turmanin includes a splendid fifth century basilica (https://vici.org/vici/23973/) , in northern part some stone tombs. To the right was a pandocheion (inn for pilgrims). To the ist was a residential part of monastery.. Between it and  pandocheion was a great water basin. The most highest part of a hill occupied church. Thick wall surrounded the whole comlex. pandocheilon was lage (23x35 m) two storeys building with two storeys high peristil of monolithic piers.

Sources:

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

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Sixth century church in North Syria. Deir Amman.


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