Endnote 2 – The Dead Cities of Christian Syria

The British explorer and diplomat Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) commented that the church represented “the beginning of a new chapter in the architecture of the world. The fine and simple beauty of Romanesque was born in North Syria.” See G. Bell, Syria: The Desert and the Sown (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1907), p. 306.