. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . r of Georgia,one of the three kings depicted over the inner portal of the church. It isat any rate certain that it was founded before the introduction of was rebuilt in the middle of the 11th century. At the period of theCrusades the monastery was the property of the Georgians (Grusinians),from whom, however, it was taken by Beybars (1260-77) and fitted up asa mosque. The Georgians recovered it in 1305, and it was restored in1644 by Leontatian, one of their kings. The monastery
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . r of Georgia,one of the three kings depicted over the inner portal of the church. It isat any rate certain that it was founded before the introduction of was rebuilt in the middle of the 11th century. At the period of theCrusades the monastery was the property of the Georgians (Grusinians),from whom, however, it was taken by Beybars (1260-77) and fitted up asa mosque. The Georgians recovered it in 1305, and it was restored in1644 by Leontatian, one of their kings. The monastery at a later datebecame, like the other Georgian monasteries, loaded with debt. It hassuffered much from the hands of the Arabs, who plundered it and murderedthe monks more than once, as evidenced by the traces of a great pool ofblood in the nave. Hence, too, the high wall without windows and the iron-mounted wicket, which is characteristic of the older Oriental monasteries. The monastery is of irregular quadrangular form. Its buildingsembrace several large and irregular courts, alid are fitted up partly. tJ^ .-j^^F*. «i^> ## IJl- -^t:i% S ~ Im^-V^- =5 =^1 V*3f|Bf^ CI vs *i| iA ^ S l-ll*?,?«?i?9 ^.af I 5^ .^ ^^
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