Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal . EVKNINC. CINIRA. The Order of Christ tians and the Moors, took place in the last years of theheroic founder. The inhabitants carried all their posses-sions up the hill and fought the pagans outside the castlewalls. After the destroyers flight the town revivedrapidly, for in a centurys time the number of its popula-tion exceeded 20,000 souls. A mystic sanctuary was that first strong chapel of thewarrior monks. Beneath the cupola originally crowningthe edifice a Byzantine arcade was erected concentric witht
Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal . EVKNINC. CINIRA. The Order of Christ tians and the Moors, took place in the last years of theheroic founder. The inhabitants carried all their posses-sions up the hill and fought the pagans outside the castlewalls. After the destroyers flight the town revivedrapidly, for in a centurys time the number of its popula-tion exceeded 20,000 souls. A mystic sanctuary was that first strong chapel of thewarrior monks. Beneath the cupola originally crowningthe edifice a Byzantine arcade was erected concentric withthe polygon exterior but octagon in form, composing inits entirety what vv^as called the Charola, or great recessfor figures of saints, surrounding the high altar, which waserected beneath the east arch, according to the rites ofthe ancient Free Masons, supposed to have been practisedby the Templars. It was a sanctuary corresponding to themirghab of the Orient. The chapel was used chieflyduring times of siege, for at other times the knights livedwithout the walls, and performed their o
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