The Monastery of Mar Georges is perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Valley of the Christians and is considered one of the oldest Christian pilgrimage sites in Homs. Syriac manuscripts attribute its founding to the 6th century, while a Greek inscription confirms the current phase of reconstruction, dating it to 1857. The complex consists of three churches stacked vertically: the semi-subterranean “Old Church,” the “Church of Saint George” on the middle floor, and the upper “Church of Saint Thecla” overlooking the valley. The monastery preserves a unique Byzantine icon of the Mother of God known as “Our Lady of Grace,” in addition to mosaic tiles with cross shapes and grape decorations, a common symbolism in Antiochian art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Monastery of Mar Georges is perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Valley of the Christians and is considered one of the oldest Christian pilgrimage sites in Homs. Syriac manuscripts attribute its founding to the 6th century, while a Greek inscription confirms the current phase of reconstruction, dating it to 1857. The complex consists of three churches stacked vertically: the semi-subterranean “Old Church,” the “Church of Saint George” on the middle floor, and the upper “Church of Saint Thecla” overlooking the valley. The monastery preserves a unique Byzantine icon of the Mother of God known as “Our Lady of Grace,” in addition to mosaic tiles with cross shapes and grape decorations, a common symbolism in Antiochian art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,358],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homs","category-religious-monuments-homs","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}