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Title: Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, Albert, 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Palestine -- Guidebooks Syria -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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roperty of the Georgians (Grusinians),from whom, however, it was taken by Beibars (1260-77) and fitted up asa mosque. The Georgians recovered it in 1305 and it was restored in1644 by Leontatian, one of their kings. The monastery at a later datebecame, like the other Georgian monasteries, loaded with debt. It hassullered much from the bands of the Arabs, who plundered it and murderedthe monks more than once, as evidenced by the traces of a great pool ofblood in the nave. Hence, too, the high wall without windows and the iron-mounted wicket, which is characteristic of the older Oriental monasteries. The monastery is of irregular quadrangular form. Its buildingsembrace several large and irregular courts, and are fitted up partlyin the European style. The Churchy consisting of nave and aisles,dates from the Byzantine period. The dome is borne by four largepillars, and the vaulting and arches are pointed. The paintings ontlie walls, some of them of a rude character, were retouched in 1643.
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