Visualizing Countryside

This StoryMap presents a collection of photographs documenting medieval churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin region of northern Mesopotamia (modern day southeast Türkiye). The following maps present images of buildings, decorations, architectural details, and landscapes. Although most of the buildings photographed were built in the medieval era (roughly from the sixth to the fifteenth century), the archive also presents modern-day renovations and contemporary iconography and artwork embellishing these churches and monasteries.

There are two ways to explore the sites:

1. An Interactive Map that displays the location of all photographs, multiple of which can be found for each church.
2. A Map Tour that provides an interactive list of all photographs.

All text, images, and other information shown in the maps are drawn from data available through UPenn Libraries on both  JSTOR  and  ARTSTOR.