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05-Jun-2013 Dick Osseman

Jordan Um Quais 2013 1268.jpg

This almost square basilica was built between 360-370 AD. The central aisle is right above a Roman mausoleum. The opening for light can be seen in the church floor (I missed that). The completetely destroyed apsis on the other hand lay above a grave that dated from the Byzantine era. Maybe one saw a connection between some miracle by Jesus and the mausoleum (Mathh. 8:28 is mentioned on a notice at the site, where Jesus, who is in the Gadara area, is approached by two men from “the tombs” who are possessed by demons, demons which Jesus transfers to a herd of pigs, who next drown themselves. The men are delivered, but “the whole town” came out to beg Jesus to leave their area). The church remained in use as such until shortly after the crusades, when it became a mosque, and a mihrab was installed in the southern wall. I took some pictures of the entrance to the mausoleum, light was bad.

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