medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
It may be of interest that the early 8th century Umayyad Great Mosque at
Damascus, built on the site of the Christian church of St John the Baptist
itself built from the Roman temple of Jupiter, has a free-standing
structure beneath the arcade built (and still supposed) to house the head of
John the Baptist.
The mosque is unusual in that the haram is a basilica but it is orientated
by the qibla wall so that the worshippers face the long wall rather than the
length of the basilica.
John Hall
> The classical Gothic Cathedral of Notre Dame in Amiens, largest in
> France, was built to contain the head of St. John the Baptist, stolen
> during the commission of one of the greatest crimes in history: the sack
> of Constantinople by the Latin West at the time of the Fourth Crusade.
> It is but one of the countless examples of treasures looted from the
> Orthodox.
> Fr Ambrose
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