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One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus, Bayt Farhi belonged to the Farhi family, who served as financial administrators to successive Ottoman governors in Damascus and Acre. Illustrated with extensive colour photographs, plans, and reconstruction drawings, the book brings to life the home environment of the lost elite Sephardic community of Ottoman Damascus. It will be an important resource for those studying the architecture, history, and culture of Syria and the Ottoman Empire. Bayt Farhi's outstanding architecture and decoration is documented and presented in this first comprehensive analysis of it and Damascus's other prominent Sephadic mansions Matkab 'Anbar, Bayt Dahdah, Bayt Stambouli, and Bayt Lisbona. The Hebrew poetic inscriptions in these residences reveal how the Farhis and other leading Sephardic families perceived themselves and how they presented themselves to their own community and other Damascenes. A history of the Farhis and the Jews of Damascus provides the context for these houses, along with the architectural development of the monumental Damascene courtyard house.

Palaces --- Courtyard houses --- Architecture, Domestic --- Jewish architecture --- Beit Farhi (Damascus, Syria) --- Damascus (Syria) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Palaces - Syria - Damascus --- Courtyard houses - Syria - Damascus --- Architecture, Domestic - Syria - Damascus --- Jewish architecture - Syria - Damascus --- Damascus (Syria) - Buildings, structures, etc.

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This book is the first full-length work concerning the restoration and excavations carried out at Qal’at Sem’an in Syria in the twentieth century. It was written by the notable architect and archaeologist Georges Tchalenko based on his notes, plans, photographs and sketches as he undertook the work in the years before and during the Second World War. Left unpublished at the time of his death during the Lebanese Civil War, it is published here for the first time in the original French with an English translation. The text is richly illustrated throughout and accompanied by a biographical essay by John Tchalenko and an introduction to the historiography of Qal’at Sem’an and Symeon Stylites by Emma Loosley Leeming.

Architecture, Early Christian --- Church architecture --- Christian antiquities --- Simeon Stylites, --- Tchalenko, Georges. --- Qalʻat Simʻān (Syria) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Architecture, Early Christian - Syria - Qalʻat Simʻān. --- Church architecture - Syria - Qalʻat Simʻān. --- Christian antiquities - Syria - Qalʻat Simʻān. --- Symeon stylita senior --- Qal'at Sim'ân (près Alep) --- Simeon Stylites, - Saint, - -459. --- Qalʻat Simʻān (Syria) - Buildings, structures, etc. --- Antiquities, Christian --- Antiquities, Ecclesiastical --- Archaeology, Christian --- Christian archaeology --- Church antiquities --- Ecclesiastical antiquities --- Monumental theology --- Antiquities --- Byzantine antiquities --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Early Christian architecture --- Qalʻat Simʻān (Syria) --- Qalʻat Semʻān (Syria) --- Qalat Samʻan (Syria) --- Shrines