This was the only route into Deir Mar Musa for visitors until the early C21st and involved taking a rough track into the mountains from An Nabk for around 18 kilometres before hiking for another 2 kilometres along a watercourse to reach the monastery.
Creator
Emma Loosley
Date of Visit
May 1997
Contributor
Emma Loosley
Rights
Metadata and all media released under Creative Commons
unless otherwise indicated
Type
Landscape
Tags
An Nabk, Deir Mar Musa, Landscape, Mar Musa al-Habashi, Syria
Collection
Citation
Emma Loosley, “Views of the walk to Deir Mar Musa from the west,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed April 25, 2024, https://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/403.