Here lies the door of which I have just spoken: mouldings divide it into compartments; it is provided with hinges worked in the thickness of the block which composes the stone | The mosque was restored and mostly rebuilt during the 19th century while was under rule |
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The in Damascus also claims to hold John's body | They are only seen by introducing a light across three small openings in the wall of the chamber |
On the east are three to and aisles, the central apse is 30 feet in diameter, equal to the width of the nave.
John the Baptist, and the others those of the prophets Obadiah and Elisha | |
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In 1870, the French explorer visited the place, and noted: "At the western extremity of the monument rises a sanctuary crowned by a little pierced with narrow windows, which admit a feeble light into the which it covers | History [ ] Byzantine church [ ] The Nabi Yahya Mosque stands on the site identified since times as the place where John the Baptist's body was buried by his followers |
The interior length is 158 feet, the breadth 74 feet; the west wall is 10 feet thick, the north wall 8 feet, the south wall 4 feet.
1" Ottoman rebuilding [ ] A sign in the mosque, 2018 In 1892, ordered the rebuilding of part of the site | Crusader cathedral [ ] The ruins of the crusader cathedral in the 1840s, from |
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Nabi Yahya refers to John the Baptist in the | It is constructed of large buttressed walls |
It is located in the central square of the village.
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