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Location

  • Jordan, Umm al Jimāl
  • geo:32.324692,36.368481

Period or year

  • 5xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Umm el-Jimal, Chapel of the Barracks

data access 69433

The Church of the Barracks is a small chapel or church attached to the barracs already existing (dates to ca 412 AD).

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 120
  2. Howard Crosby Butler eds., Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. A ; 3), pp. 189-191-  https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/syria_div2_sectA_3

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2020-12-24) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/69433
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta (2020) Umm el-Jimal, Chapel of the Barracks. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/69433, accessed 2026-11-15.