ROMAN TEMPLE

Roman columns beside the Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus. The mosque was built on the site of a former Roman temple, preserving visible traces of the city’s layered past where pagan sanctuary, Christian church, and Islamic mosque each occupied the same sacred ground over the centuries.

Phot. Luigi Stironi, Norbert Schiller Collection

Picture scanned 14 X 9cm postcard

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