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 Religious Architecture. 293 gether, the arrangement is about the same, consisting of a circular or quadrangular enclosure, with the fetish stone in the inner chamber or haram, whilst a larger division, likewise open to Fig. 196. — Stone Circle. Deir Ghuzaleh, Inner View, the sky, was destined for the frequenters of the shrine. The Maltese examples seem to be the development of a type proper to Syria ; in Peraea they present a more rudimentary form, and oon. press. Menhir called Hajr-el-Mansub Fig. 197. — Sketch of the site called El Mareighath. are, moreover, without an opening at the end (Fig. 198). To penetrate into the sanctuary properly so called, it was necessary to scale a wall about one metre in height, whilst the courtyard was entered through the spaces interposed between the blocks, or over