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Map of Megalos Kalogeros islet.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Greece, Kalogeroi islets, Maps, Megalos Kalogeros, Monasteries

The ruins of the basilica of Saint John in Pergamon.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Church of Saint John the Theologian (Pergamon), Churches, Houses, Human types, Mysia, Pergamon, Seven Churches of Asia Minor, Turkey, Views

The catholic monastery of Saint Benedict (Church of Saint Benoit) at Galata, Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Saint Benedict / Santa Maria della Cisterna (Saint Benoit Latin Katolik Kilisesi), Churches, Frankish architecture, Frankish monuments, Istanbul, Monasteries, Thrace, Turkey, Views

Inscription from the church of Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Byzantine inscriptions, Churches, Greece, Hagios Demetrios (Thessaloniki), Inscriptions, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Map of Venice.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Churches, Italy, Maps, Veneto, Venice

Map of Elba island.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Elba / anc. Aethalia, Islands, Italy, Maps, Mythical beings, Portoferraio, Ports, Southern Italy, Walls

Map of Minorca island.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Balearic islands, Boats and ships, Churches, Islands, Maps, Minorca / Menorca, Mythical beings, Spain

Map of Majorca island.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Balearic islands, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Islands, Majorca / Mallorca, Maps, Mythical beings, Spain

1. The entrance to the grotto of Sibyl, today Church of Saint John the Baptist in Marsala, Sicily. 2. Plan of the Sibyl's Cave. 3. Mosaic from the same grotto.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cave of the Sibyl (Marsala), Caves, Church of Saint John the Baptist (Marsala), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Italy, Marsala, Priests, Sicily, Southern Italy

Cemetery near Bucharest.

Tags: Animals, Bucarest, Cemeteries, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Religious practices, Romania, Romanians, Social sphere and everyday life

The church of Saint Nicholas in Curtea de Argeş, Romania.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Church of Saint Nicholas (Curtea de Argeș), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Curtea de Argeș, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint Nicholas (Curtea de Argeș), Religious practices, Romania, Romanians, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

The monastery of Daphni.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Byzantine monuments, Central Greece, Churches, Daphni, Daphni monastery, Greece, Monasteries, Natural environment, Views

The church of Hagioi Apostoloi in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hagioi Apostoloi (Thessaloniki), Human types, Macedonia, Religious practices, Thessaloniki, Views, Women

Orthodox church in Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Damietta, Egypt, Religious practices, Views

Church and mosque on the site where God gave the tablets of the Ten Commandments to Moses on the Holy Summit or Mount Moses (Gebel Mousa). Monastery of the Forty Martyrs. The summit of Saint Catherine, on which, according to tradition, the Angels laid down the remains of the Saint.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Egypt, Mount Horeb, Mount Moses (Gabal Musa), Mount Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Church of the Apparition of the Virgin on Mount Horeb. The site where God spoke to Moses on the Holy Summit or Mount Moses (Gebel Musa).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Chapel of Prophet Elias (Mount Horeb), Churches, Egypt, Mount Horeb, Mount Moses (Gabal Musa), Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Church on the outskirts of Beirut, where according to tradition Saint George killed the dragon.

Tags: Beirut, Churches, Lebanon, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views

Church on the route from Damascus to Beirut, site of Noah's tomb according to tradition.

Tags: Beirut, Churches, Damascus, Holy Land, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Syria, Tomb of Noah, Views

The site where Paul was baptized by Ananias. The site on the route to Damascus where Paul converted to Christianism.

Tags: Churches, Damascus, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Syria, Views

View of settlement, possibly Capernaum in Galilee. Site where Jesus Christ fed the multitude.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Capernaum, Churches, Galilee, Holy Land, Israel, Religious practices

Fountain of archangel Gabriel in Nazareth, today site of the Orthodox hurch of the Annunciation in Nazareth. According to a certain tradition, Virgin Mary had gone to the well for water when archangel Gabriel appeared before her. Upon seeing Gabriel, the Virgin let the pail she was carrying fall and ran frightened back to her house. According to the author, at the time of his pilgrimage the church was used by Indian Christians (Alaphis), it is however possible that he is referring to Nestorian Christians.

Tags: Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, Architecture and built environment, Church of the Annunciation (Nazareth), Churches, Galilee, Israel, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Spring of St. Gabriel (Nazareth)

View of Nazareth. In the foreground, the cave where the house of Virgin Mary was, and where the Annunciation to the Virgin took place (today, catholic Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth). According to the tradition related by the author, Virgin Mary became frightened upon seeing Archangel Gabriel before her and hid behind the column depicted in the illustration.

Tags: Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Galilee, Houses, Israel, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Church built on the site where Virgin Mary was frightened upon seeing the inhabitants of Nazareth pursuing Jesus. According to the tradition transmitted by the author, the rock miraculously split in two, so that the Virgin could hide inside. According to the author the church was used by Nubian Christians.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Mary's Fear / Notre Dame de l'Effroi, Churches, Galilee, Israel, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Religious practices

View of Samaria-Sebaste in Palestine. Church built on the site of Saint John's beheading in Samaria-Sebaste according to a certain tradition.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, John the Baptist, Nablus / anc. Neapolis, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Samaria

Remains of a church on the route from Jerusalem to Samaria, site where Jesus encountered the Samaritan woman at the well.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Palestine, Religious practices, Samaria

Chapel on Mount Zion where Christ appeared to the Apostles on Pentecost day. Chapel on the site of the Holy Supper.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cenacle (Jerusalem), Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Mount Zion, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Church on Golgotha Hill.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

Tower of David in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Religious practices

Church of Mary Magdalene, seat of Jerusalem Patriarchate at the time. Church of Saint John the Baptist, first hospital of the Crusaders, after which the order of the Knights Hospitaller was named.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monuments, Church of Mary Magdalene (Jerusalem), Church of Saint John the Baptist (Ein Karem), Churches, Crusaders, Israel, Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

Belltower of church in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Religious practices

Chapel of the Resurrection where the Holy Fire miracle takes place.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Chapel of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Crusaders, Holy Fire, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

Columns from the Chapel of Saint Helen in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. According to tradition, the columns weep the death of Christ.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Chapel of Saint Helena (Holy Sepulchre), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Crusaders, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

The tomb of Adam underneath Calvary in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Chapel of Adam). According to Jewish and Christian tradition, Shem and Melchizedek guided by angels travelled to the spot whre Noah's Ark was, took Adam's body and, guided by angels, buried it at the site of Calvary in Jerusalem.

Σύμφωνα με εβραϊκές και χριστιανικές παραδόσεις, ο Σήμ και ο Μελχισεδέκ ( ή ο Σολομώντας, όπως δηλώνεται στην παρούσα έκδοση), με την…

Tags: Adam's Tomb / Chapel of Adam (Jerusalem), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Crusaders, Funerary monuments, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

Chapel of the tombs of Godefroy de Bouillon and Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Crusaders, Funerary monuments, Godfrey of Bouillon, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

Calvary chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

Interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

The Aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Religious practices

View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with the stone which commemorates the spot of the third fall of Christ on the route to Golgotha.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Religious practices

Woman from Poland.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Houses, Human types, Jewellery, Mosques, Poland, Polish people, Women

Interior view of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In the foreground, a Turk charges the pilgrims their entrance to the church.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Charging of Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Coins, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Religious practices, Scales, Turks

View of Mount Sinai with Saint Catherine's Monastery, as well as other monasteries and chapels.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Modes of transport, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Natural environment, Pilgrimages, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Travel, Views

Map of Cyprus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Cyprus, Houses, Maps, Towers

Map of Mount Athos.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Greece, Macedonia, Maps, Monasteries, Mount Athos

Map of Chios.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Chios, Churches, Greece, Houses, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Maps, Towers

Map of Patmos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Dodecanese, Greece, Houses, Islands, Maps, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (Patmos), Patmos

Map of Kalymnos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Dodecanese, Greece, Houses, Islands, Kalymnos, Maps, Towers

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