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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 430

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ecorded to have built twenty-foursynagogues in (ialilee, whilst others, amongwhom is Kenan, ascrilie them to the end of thesecond century. Tiicy all face the south andare always rectangular. With one exception(the small synagogue at Kcfr liirim, which liastwo rows only) they are all divi<led… … Church and Convent of S. Simeon Stylites: Oth Century. Kalat SemAn. Synagogues. Though of much later datethan the tombs just quoted, the synagogues ofGalilee are best mentioned here. In the jtorti-coes preceding them and in the design of tliedoorways and niches, they are evidently basedon Roman…

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