Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Bain, Robert E. M

Coffee Garden, Dummar, Damascus--To whose gods Ahaz, the King of Judah, sacrificed, and brought ruin to his home and people [Graphic]

Earthly Footsteps of The Man of Galilee Being Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Original Photographic Views and Descriptions of the Places Connected with the Earthly Life of Our Lord and His Apostles Traced with Note Book and Camera showing where Christ was born, brought up, baptized, tempted, transfigured and crucified, together with the scenes of his prayers, tears, miracles and sermons, and also places made sacred by the labors of his apostles, from Jerusalem to Rome by Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., Rev. James W. Lee, D.D., and R.E.M. Bain. London: W.A. Hammond, Holborn Hall, E.C.

St. Louis, 1894.

1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 17.6 cm ( 10 x 6.875 in).

Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(II.Chronicles, xxviii:23.)--'For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him.' Ahaz was the son of Jothan and the twelfh king of Judah. He reined sixteen years, from B.C. 726 to B.C. 742. He introduced new sanctuaries and strange altars in Jerusalem, and burned incense in the temple courts to the heavenly bodies. He erected a new altar after the pattern of one he had seen in Damascus. He is said to have introduced the sun dial, which is about the only useful thing he contributed to his time. We give a picture above of a coffee garden in one of the suburbs of Damascus. The city was, perhaps, in the days of Ahaz, very much what it is to-day. It owes its existence to the Abana river, and has always been noted for its beautiful gardens filled with flowering shrubs. Damascus has always been a wicked city. People here have lived for pleasure, and the gods of Damascus to which Ahaz sacrificed were the ruin of him and of his people."

Trees on the banks of the river; an outdoor, covered area with seats

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Coffee

Coffeehouses

Coffee Garden

5549BAI/LVii275CAJS

CAJS Image Collection LVii BAI 5549 LVii275CAJS

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Syria

Damascus

Abana River (Syria)

Dummar