Krak des Chevaliers, Syria.
Photographs by Peter Aaron
A Traveller’s Record of Syrian Monuments Before the War
By John Gendall
The New Yorker
In April, 2009, Peter Aaron, a veteran architectural photographer, went on vacation with his family, to Syria. It was about one year into President Obama’s first term, long before the name isis was broadly known. That…
Located 50 km from Damascus in the direction of Lebanon is the magnificent village of Maalula (also spelled Maaloula), Syria. Maalula is the only place in the world that still speaks Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
Photo: CONVENT OF ST. THECLA (DEIR MAR TAKLA)/kirikou.com
Maalula is a predominantly Christian village with a…
Mor Augin is a 4th century Syriac Orthodox monastery in the Turkish province of Mardin in the district of Nusaybin in Tur Abdin.
It is located about 20 km northeast of Nusaybin and 60 km east of the provincial capital Mardin. North of the monastery Mor Augin are the villages…