- PETRA
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- Arriving at Petra
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- Walk In
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- The Siq
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- The Small Siq
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- Treasury
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- Street of Facades
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- Water Works
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- The Theater
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- The Royal Tombs
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- High Place
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- Colonnade Street
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- Great Temple
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- Temple of Al Uzza
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- Temple of Dushares
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- Museum
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- Dier
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- Habis
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- Biera
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- City of Board Games
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- Snake Monumnet
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- Sabara Suburb
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- City Walls/Map
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- Al Beidha
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- Churches
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- Kubtha High Place
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- Wadi Nmeir
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- Small Delights
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- The Bedul
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- Petra Today
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- Petra Park
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- PETRA: The Churches
- Petra boasts an amazing number of churches. Many old tombs
were turned into churches or cathedrals, and many tombs later
had crosses inscribed into their walls. Along with this, there
are three churches built almost side by side. The Christian era
at Petra came during the 3rd and 4th centuries, when many of
the Nabataean people had emigrated elsewhere.
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- Urn Tomb Cathedral
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The inscription above records the consecration
of the tomb as a church by Bishop Jason. Dates to 447 A.D. You
can learn more by clicking here. |
- Main Church
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In 1990 Kenneth W. Russell discovered the remains
of a Byzantine era church on the north slope of the Colonnade
Street. The church contained mosaic floors, marble screens, side
rooms, a baptismal tank, and a room full of burnt scrolls, now
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These scrolls were taken to the American Center for Oriental
Research in Amman, and after careful examination were translated.
You can learn more about the Petra Byzantine church by visiting
this
web page.
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- Blue Church
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Located just above the main church is the blue church, named
after it's impressive columns.
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Discover more at this web
site. |
- Red Church
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The Red Church is located above the blue
church and crowns the top of the hill. Behind the Red Church
the city walls would have protected the city from invasion from
the north. |
- Christian Tombs
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To the north of Petra, a number of tombs
with crosses in them suggests that this was originally a Nabataean
Christian burial site |
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