{"id":6833,"date":"2025-08-08T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/temple-of-bel-in-palmyra\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:15:40","slug":"temple-of-bel-in-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/temple-of-bel-in-palmyra\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple of Bel in Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominating the architectural scene of the Palmyrene oasis, the Temple of Bel, whose construction began in 32 AD and was completed in the 2nd century, featured a monumental Corinthian fa\u00e7ade and a vast courtyard surrounded by an astrolabe-style colonnaded portico blending Greek influences with Nabataean desert traditions. Dedicated by local merchants to the god Bel (Lord of the Sky), it became both a religious and economic hub, hosting royal clan rituals and the signing of commercial contracts. In the 5th century, the Byzantines converted it into a cathedral, and later, during the Ayyubid period, it was transformed into a fortress housing a small mosque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominating the architectural scene of the Palmyrene oasis, the Temple of Bel, whose construction began in 32 AD and was completed in the 2nd century, featured a monumental Corinthian fa\u00e7ade and a vast courtyard surrounded by an astrolabe-style colonnaded portico blending Greek influences with Nabataean desert traditions. Dedicated by local merchants to the god Bel (Lord of the Sky), it became both a religious and economic hub, hosting royal clan rituals and the signing of commercial contracts. In the 5th century, the Byzantines converted it into a cathedral, and later, during the Ayyubid period, it was transformed into a fortress housing a small mosque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,358],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homs","category-religious-monuments-homs","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}