Pages That Mention Kefr Kîla
Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria I, 1899
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District No. I p. 6. Benâbil p. 11. Barrîsh p. 16. Ḳirḳ Bêzā p. 20. Kfêr p. 25. Beḥyō p. 29. Kefr Kîla p. 31. Kalb Lauzi p. 36. Barrîsh (Kefr Kîla) p. 37. Beshindelâya p. 44. Beshindelinti p. 45. Ma'ṣarti
District No. II p. 50 Banaḳfûr p. 56 Bāmuḳḳā p. 61 Bāshakûḥ p. 65 Silfâyā p. 68 Khirbet el-Khaṭîb p. 69 Khirbet Tēzîn p. 70 Ḳaṣr Iblîsū p. 72 Bashmishli [continued in Part II]
Types of Church Plans illustrations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Churches. | Plan | Supports |
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Benâbil | No. 2 | 0 |
Kfêr | 2 | 0 |
Beḥyō | 4 | 6 cols? |
Kefr Kîla | ? | ? |
Ḳalb Lauzi | 6 | 4 piers |
Barrish (K.K.) | 1 | 0 |
Banaḳfûr | No. 3 | 6 cols. |
Bāmuḳḳā | 3 | cols. |
Khirbat el-Khaṭîb | 3 | ? |
Khirbet Tĕzîn | 3 | 6 cols |
Ḳaṣr Iblîsū | 1 | 0 |
Bashmishli | 3 | 4 piers |
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Half an hour south of Beḥyō, a ruined town with a small fragment of a church built over in Saracenic times into an extensive castle.
Almost nothing remains of the ancient town, a few mutilated lintels and the north portal of the church are the only points of interest.
The site is now occupied by a small and squalid Mohammedan village.
To the east of the town are the extensive remains of rock cut tombs with arcosolia above excavated sarcophagi and a number of large roughly hewn free standing sarcophagi.
Among the ruins a number of Arabic inscriptions were found. These were of no great age but a squeeze was taken of one built into a modern house wall.
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On a high elevation quarter of a mile westward from Kefr Kîla stands a square tower still preserving its three stories of small openings -it is easily visible from a number of the surrounding ruined towers and is surrounded by the remains of a small building.
Both tower and ruins were built of large blocks of stone.
The name which is of ancient Aramaic origin signifies a convent but the remains are scarsely of sufficient extent to have been a convent of any importance while the site and solidity of the building are not unsuitable for a defended watch tower. On the other hand an elaborately carved symbolical tablet + and a number of curiously designed crosses seem to point to a religious purpose.
+see sketch
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Barrish Kefr Kîla & Dêr Shim'ûn October 28, 1899
On a ridge running north & south to the westward of Kalb Lauzi are situated two ruins which we visited on the return from Kefr Kîla. The first is the ruin of a small village almost due west of Kefr Kîla. It is much dilapidated and preserves only a fragment of the east wall of an oblong building possibly a church.
This was built in the simplest style. The window heads are semicircles cut in the lintels without mouldings.
The domestic architecture seems to have been entirely in megalithic style of the most primative kind
The second ruin is that of small monastery with small square tower and plain arched portal preserved.
It is conspicuous as a land mark.