2-637-228 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Church of San Giovanni degli Eremiti (St John of the Hermits), Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 1927. The church was founded in the 6th century but became a mosque after the Arab conquest of Sicily. The Islamic influence is notable in the architecture of the building, which became a Christian church again after the Normans conquered the island in the 12th century. From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]