Termanin, Monastery

Deir Termanin. Plan After H.C. Butler 1929

Omgeving:

Sketch of the Church of Turmānīn, c. 480 A.D.

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, decoration on buttress

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, decoration above entrance

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, entrance with decoration

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, interior of absis

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, north west corner

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, entrance from south aisle to side chapel

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, west facade from the interior by sunset

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, middle aisle with colonnades

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, interior with absis

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, east facade

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, column with capital

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, exterior with flock of sheep and young sheperd with just-born lamb

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, south facade with entrance

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, colonnade between two aisles

Mushabbaq, Remains of Byzantine basilica church, west facade with barricaded entrance

Locatie:

Syrië, Turmānīn
geo:36.241982,36.823051
Locatie precies

Period or year:

5xx / unknown

Classificatie:

Tempel of heiligdom
Zichtbaar

Identifiers:

vici:place=69284

Annotaties

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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:

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

Sources:

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

In de buurt

Turmanin

Basilica in Turmanin, Syria. VIth century.

Dera` Man (4 km)

Fifth century chuch in North Syria.

Dera` Man, West Church (4 km)

Sixth century church in North Syria. Deir Amman.