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Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan.. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert.
The church of Saint George Diasoritis (Greek: Άγιος Γεώργιος ο Διασορίτης), is a Byzantine church about 600 metres (10 minutes on foot) from Halki village (also known as Tragaia) in the centre of Naxos island.
The Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St. George (Greek: Πατριαρχικός Ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου; Turkish: Aya Yorgi Kilisesi) is the principal Eastern Orthodox cathedral located in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and, as Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire until 1453, and of the Ottoman Empire until ...
The Burqin Church (Arabic: كنيسة برقين), also known as the Church of the Ten Lepers or Church of St George (Arabic: كنيسة القديس جاورجيوس), [1] is a Greek Orthodox church established during the Byzantine period and located in the Palestinian West Bank town of Burqin, in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine. It is ...
Rotunda of Saint George (4th century) Church of Acheiropoietos (5th century) Church of St. Demetrios (7th century) Latomou Monastery (6th century) Church of St. Sophia (8th century) Church of Panagia Chalkeon (11th century) Church of St. Panteleimon (14th century) Church of the Holy Apostles (14th century) Church of St. Nicholas Orphanos (14th ...
Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia into a Muslim ...
Saint George of Samatya or Surp Kevork (Armenian: Սամաթիոյ Սուրբ Գէորգ Եկեղեցի; Turkish name: Sulu Manastır, meaning: "Water Monastery") is an Armenian church in Istanbul, Turkey. The edifice, built between 1866 and 1887, has been erected above the substructure of a Byzantine church and monastery built in the eleventh ...
The Rotunda of Galerius, also known as the Rotunda of Saint George, is 125 m (410 ft) northeast of the Arch of Galerius at 40°37'59.77"N, 22°57'9.77"E. It is also known (by its consecration and use) as the Greek Orthodox Church of Agios Georgios , and is informally called the Church of the Rotunda (or simply The Rotunda).