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Location

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.330608,35.444187
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • 500~ / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Petra, Baptystery at the Byzantine Church

data access 31450

The baptistery located to the west of the "Petra Church"  is a tree-room complex. In the centre is a cross-shaped baptismal font under a four-columned canopy.

Sources:

  1. Patricia Maynor Bikai, "The Churches of Byzantine Petra". Near Eastern Archaeology. 65 (4): 2002,  271–27 -https://www.jstor.org/stable/3210859

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-12-21) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/31450
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. , Petra, Baptystery at the Byzantine Church. https://vici.org/vici/31450, accessed 2026-04-04.