Lady of the Valley Sculpture

The Lady of the Valley is a Marian shrine inaugurated on 16 August 2009, located in , Wadi al-Nasara in . The statue is built near the Lady of the Valley Church on top of Mount of the Pilgrim, which is dedicated to Saint George.
Wikipedia
Photo: أفرام, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: sculpture
  • Description: Statue of Virgin Mary
  • Also known as: “Lady of the Valley”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Krak des Chevaliers and St George Monastery.

Photo: (Ergo), CC BY 2.0.
located near in is widely recognised as the archetypal Crusader castle. Described by T.E. Lawrence as "perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world", this somewhat isolated site is located magnificently and is, indeed, extremely well-preserved.

Church
Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.
Saint George Monastery or Deir Mar Georges is a historic Greek Orthodox monastery in the village of in the "Valley of the Christians", belonging to the in northwestern , the place located just a few kilometers north of the famous castle . is situated 2½ km south of Lady of the Valley Sculpture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include An-Nasra and Kafra.

Village
Al-Nasirah is a small Christian town in northwestern , administratively part of the , located west of . Nearby localities include Habnamrah to the northwest, and Ayn al-Bardah to the west, Zweitina to the southwest, al-Husn to the south, al-Huwash and al-Mazinah to the southeast, Shin to the east, to the northeast, Hadeih and to the north.

Village
is a village in northern located west of in the . According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, had a population of 909 in the 2004 census.

Village
Photo: Famaty, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in northwestern , located west of Homs. is one of the largest villages in Wadi al-Nasara, a region north of .

Lady of the Valley Sculpture

Latitude
34.78859° or 34° 47′ 19″ north
Longitude
36.27605° or 36° 16′ 34″ east
Inception
August 16th, 2009
Height
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8G6RQ7QG+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1212729466
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Wiki­data ID
Q12203226
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Persian—“Lady of the Valley Sculpture” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اكبر تمثال للسيدة العذراء”
  • Arabic: “تمثال السيدة”
  • Arabic: “تمثال سيدة الوادي”
  • Persian: “تمثال سیده الوادی”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lady of vally and Nasrah Post Office.

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