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Location

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Būz Ghār
  • geo:36.132164,36.633804

Period or year

  • 554 / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Djuwaniyeh, Church of St. Stephen

data access 69641

The church at Juwaniye - Djuwaniyeh was dedicated to St. Stephen. The inscription found in the atrium on the south side of the church ibears the dedication to St. Stephen (https://vici.org/vici/69640/). Another inscription found near the town of Djuwaniyeh only partially preserved (https://vici.org/vici/69642/?lang=en) gives the date 554 AD. Both stele are almost certainly of the same time so the church is from this period (Butler 1929, p. 142).

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 142-143
  2. The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity; http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E01815

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  • Kokanaya
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    Syrian Arab Republic, Kawkanāyah

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2021-01-02) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/69641
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Djuwaniyeh, Church of St. Stephen. https://vici.org/vici/69641, accessed 2026-11-05.