Kerrin Meis: Splendor of Eastern Turkey

Four Fridays: Feb.
7- 28 • 10:00-12:00 pm • $120

Study this repository of the relics of lost Hittite and Urartian civilizations,
as well as ancient Roman, Biblical, Seljuk, Armenian, and Crusader structures.
Examine the Gobekli Tepe with its 12,000-year-old carvings, the sculpture of
Mt. Nemrut, the Abdurrahman mosque of Urfa, and the beehive architecture of Harran.
Highlights include Byzantine Trabzon’s Santa Sofia, the Sumeli Monastery, the
carvings on the Armenian Church on Akdamar Island, the Roman mosaics from
Zeugma, the Ulu mosque at Dyarbakir, and Ishak Pasha Palace.

Kerrin Meis taught art
history at SFSU for ten years and now lectures for the College of Marin
and Dominican University and leads study tours in Europe. Her Book Passage classes
have been big favorites for years.