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About 14 km from Amman's 1st circle, passing Wadi Seer town in the Western Amman's outskirts, the Iraq al-Amir Street winds its way down gently through the green and fertile Wadi al-Seer.
At the valley floor, left from a gardening center and café, 320 m uphill on a small road, you will reach a staircase that will bring you up to a strange double chamber cut into the rock face, with a narrow entrance door and triangular window openings.
Muallaqat al-Dayr (al-Dayr = the monastery) is an ancient columbarium (dovecote) more than 7 meter high, divided in two chambers. Its interior displays about 800 triangular niches carved into the walls in three floors, thought to have been to accommodate doves for breeding.
Muallaqat al-Dayr
Iraq al-Amir
Left from a gardening center and café, 320 m uphill on a small road
Approx. 14 km from Amman's 1st circle
Location on map
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Visual tour through Wadi al-Seer, a fertile valley southwest of Amman, visiting an ancient dovecote, caves, the ruins of Qasr al-Abd, and the Handicraft Village.