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Location

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Şaydnāyā
  • geo:33.709076,36.371269
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -4xx~ / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Roman temple and sanctuary at Deir Mar Touma

data access 29014

Aliquot1 lists this site under the heading Saidnaya, but the south facing temple and its sanctuary are actually in the ruined portion of the monastery of St. Thomas about 2km. north of the convent complex of Saidnaya. The earler temple like tomb converted into a church most probably in the V century.

See:

  1. Halûk Çetinkaya: Church of Deir Mar Touma:A Roman TombTurned into a Church at Saidnaya (Syria)-http://actual-art.org/files/sb/07/Cetinkaya.pdf

References

  1. ↑ Aliquot, Julien. “Antiliban est”. La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain. By Aliquot. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, 2009. (pp. 312-315).

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Brian Prescott-Decie (2016-09-15) , last updated by Elżbieta (2018-11-09), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/29014
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: Prescott-Decie, B. and , E., Roman temple and sanctuary at Deir Mar Touma. https://vici.org/vici/29014, accessed 2026-05-16.