Blue Chapel in Маан

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  Jesús Díaz

  :: 25 November 2017 09:07:01

  This church is one of the complex comprising the Petra Church, the Blue Church and the Ridge Church. The Blue Church was named for its four blue Egyptian granite columns. Inside the chapel lies a base of a bishop’s throne in the apse, a marble pulpit and marble chancel posts and screens. This complex of three churches was built over earlier Nabatean buildings and tombs, which remained in the use throughout the Roman period before Christianity became dominant in Petra in the fifth century AD, at which time some buildings and tombs were converted to churches. The finely carved capitals of the columns in the Blue Church, for example, are Nabatean, suggesting that these may have been recovered from an earlier temple.