Field photograph·Csn0335
Byzantine chapel, St. Chrysostomos Monastery
Description
A stone chapel with a tiled, rounded roof rises behind a lower domed apse with a pale plaster dome. Arched windows and rows of brick arches are visible in the walls, and a tall cypress tree stands at the right. A roofed building appears at the left edge, and printed text runs along the bottom of the picture.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A stone chapel seen from below, with a tall drum carrying a tiled conical roof and round-arched windows set in brick-banded masonry. In the foreground a lower rounded vault covered in pale plaster sits over walls with arched windows whose glazing is pierced by circular openings. A tall cypress rises at the right and a tiled roof of a neighbouring building appears at the left against a plain sky.
English, as on the record
BYZANTINE CHAPEL, ST. CHRYSOSTOMOS MONASTERY F.M Yiaxis "The monastery of St. Chrysostom, situated close to the peak upon which are the ruins of the Palace of the Queen, also called Buffavento belongs to the Holy Places at Jerusalem." Ali Bey el Abbassi-1767-1818 (Travels).
English, as on the record
BYZANTINE CHAPEL, ST. CHRYSOSTOMOS MONASTERY F.M Yiaxis "The monastery of St. Chrysostom, situated close to the peak upon which are the ruins of the Palace of the Queen, also called Buffavento belongs to the Holy Places at Jerusalem." Ali Bey el Abbassi-1767-1818 (Travels).