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Il-Umta'iyeh, Church VIIl Umtaiyeh, Church IIIIl-Umta'iyeh, Church IVIl-Umta'iyeh, Church IIIl-Umtaiyeh, Church VIl-Umta'iyeh, Church I. PlanSameh, Monastery of St. GeorgeUmm is-Surab, SS Sergius and Bacchus

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mutā‘īyah
  • geo:32.492119,36.29113
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -100~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69690

Annotations

The building at Il-Umta'iyeh locally called Mosque was according to H.C. Butler a Nabatean Temple. The date of this temple is uncertain.

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler eds.,  Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. A ; 2) — 1909, pp. 88-91   https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.45581
  2. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929    INTERNET ARCHIVE   https://archive.org/details/h-c-butler-early-churches-in-syria-fourth-to-seventh-centuries

Nearby

Il-Umta'iyeh, Church VI

South small church at Al-Muta’ijja, Syria.

Il-Umta'iyeh, Church III

Fifth century church in western Syria. Al-Muta’ijja, Syria, Il-Umtaiyeh, Il Umta'iyeh.

Il-Umta'iyeh, Church IV

Al-Muta’ijja, Syria, Il-Umtaiyeh, Il Umta'iyeh.


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