{"id":203340,"date":"2020-09-15T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=203340"},"modified":"2020-09-15T20:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:48:38","slug":"archeological-shaqqa-monastery-in-sweida-oldest-model-of-convents-that-date-back-to-1500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=203340","title":{"rendered":"Archeological Shaqqa Monastery in Sweida … oldest model of convents that date back to 1500 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweida, SANA- Archeological Shaqqa monastery, which is located in the eastern edge of Shaqqa town in Sweida northeastern countryside, is considered as a live witness to civilizations that passed through this area.<\/p>\n

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Director of Sweida antiquities Department, Nasha\u2019at Kewan, said that the main frontage of the monastery consists of a big main door in the middle, two small lateral doors through which anyone can enter via roofed porch connected to the chamber of the monastery guard, then to a library its cupboard within the wall, interior courtyard and huge meeting hall .<\/p>\n

Kewan added that the visitor of monastery can see in ground floor the church and residence rooms, noting that a tower that dates back to the 5th<\/sup> century A.D. remained in a good status.<\/p>\n

He added that the monastery dates back to nearly 1500 years, noting that Shaqqa was an important administrative center in the Roman era.<\/p>\n

Shaqa is famous for its richness in important archaeological sites witnessing on its glory , such as Great Basaltic Church of the Basilica, in addition to Shaqqa \u00a0Caesarea and the ruins of theater which disappear among the ancient houses and cemeteries.<\/p>\n

Hybah Sleman\/ Mazen<\/p>\n

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Sweida, SANA- Archeological Shaqqa monastery, which is located in the eastern edge of Shaqqa town in Sweida northeastern countryside, is considered as a live witness to civilizations that passed through this area. Director of Sweida antiquities Department, Nasha\u2019at Kewan, said that the main frontage of the monastery consists of a big main door in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":203342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6990,6987,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-archeology","category-latest-news","category-tourism-and-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}