On the east are three to and aisles, the central apse is 30 feet in diameter, equal to the width of the nave | The interior length is 158 feet, the breadth 74 feet; the west wall is 10 feet thick, the north wall 8 feet, the south wall 4 feet |
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Prison of John the Baptist [ ] Local tradition in both the and communities of the area notes that also contained the site of the prison of John the Baptist and is the place where he was beheaded; however this was a separate church in the old city and is a claim refuted by the account of the first century historian , which recorded the site of the beheading as , across the , some 80—90 miles away |
It is the main in the village of , near.
This crypt, of small extent, contains a chamber divided into three parallel arched , with cut stones regularly worked between them | History [ ] Byzantine church [ ] The Nabi Yahya Mosque stands on the site identified since times as the place where John the Baptist's body was buried by his followers |
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Crusader cathedral [ ] The ruins of the crusader cathedral in the 1840s, from | The mosque was restored and mostly rebuilt during the 19th century while was under rule |
Descent is managed by a staircase of fifteen steps ; then, after crossing a landing once closed by a monolithic door, you go down two steps, and find yourself in a crypt formerly paved with small slabs of in different colours, forming a sort of mosaic.
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