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Sanctuary of Agios Lot

The Monastery of St Lot (ὸ ῦ ἁ) is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Catholics believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). The monastery, dating to the 5th-7th centuries, is centered around a basilical church and overlooks from a steep slope the southeastern Dead Sea and the modern town of Safi in Jordan.

Cave data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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