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I'm not sure about your addition of the image [[:File:Mardin-arch.jpg]]. Maybe you could explain a little? thank you. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] <span style="font-size:88%">([[User_talk:Axius|talk]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Special:Contributions/Axius|contribs]])</span> 17:40, 13 July 2015 (PDT) | I'm not sure about your addition of the image [[:File:Mardin-arch.jpg]]. Maybe you could explain a little? thank you. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] <span style="font-size:88%">([[User_talk:Axius|talk]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Special:Contributions/Axius|contribs]])</span> 17:40, 13 July 2015 (PDT) | ||
Sure. | |||
The Mardin arch is in the Deyrulzafran (Saffron) Monastery, in Mardin, Turkey. The Islamic claim is that Christians could only make semi-circular Roman arches, and it was only the Muslims who made different arches. | |||
However, the Deyrulzafran Monastery has a 3rd century chapel. The floor of this chapel (the roof of the crypt) has a 13-segment arch that is so shallow, it is completely flat. It looks like a concrete roof, but it is actually dry-stone blocks. So the claim that only Muslims made non-semicircular arches is completely false. | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Hananyo_Monastery | |||
(Not heard of this name for the monastery. The tour guide said 3rd century, not 5th. And the site itself goes back 1,000 years before this.) | |||
And the 6th century Qasr Ibn Warden Byzantine church just south west of Aleppo has a pointed arch. | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasr_ibn_Wardan | |||
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