Syria. Basilica of Saint Simeon (Qala-at Samaan), surroundings of Aleppo. It consists of four independent basilicas, arranged in the shape of a cross around the column on which the mystic spent most of his life. The building began to be constructed after the death of Saint Simeon Stylites in 459 AD. Niches of the funerary chapel. (Photo taken before the Syrian civil war).

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