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Raqqa countryside, a traditional wedding ceremony in Suwaydiyya Kabira village
Jurn Kabir, Girls from Habuba Kabira are preparing the lime milk from local chalk
Habuba Kabira, inside the double-dome room with its relief arch
Habuba Kabira, to make burghul (wheat grits) the wheat is cooked in a huge pot and then carried to a drying place
Habuba Kabira, construction of the corner of a mud brick house
Habuba Kabira, construction of the base of a mud brick house
Habuba Kabira, plastering of the domes after completion of the shell
Near Habuba Kabira, a family trip by boat to their former village, that was flooded in 1973 by the Tabqa-Dam
Habuba Kabira, preparation of the clay mass for the production of clay bricks
Habuba Kabira, entrance side of a room half deepened into the grown soil (in local dialect: debabe)
Habuba Kabira, clay bricks are drying – at the edge of the village, because there is enough space
Habuba Kabira, back side of a room half deepened into the grown soil (in local dialect: debabe)
Habuba Kabira, Interior of the last existing deepened house (debabe), which was later used only as storage space
Habuba Kabira, shell of the dome house made of dried clay bricks with quarry stone base
Raqqa countyside, shepherd with traditional woolen coat in the village Suwaydiyya Kabira
Raqqa countryside, Men in a traditional tent in Suwaydiyya Kabira village
Habuba Kabira, how three cantilever domes are connected (two cantilever domes are posed on a relieving arch)
Habuba Kabira, the plastered new dome house and its garden
Habuba Kabira, view into a plastered cantilever dome with openings and decorative layer
Habuba Kabira, screening of barley as seed by the grandmother
Habuba Kabira, Mud brick construction – connection of wall, belt arch and dome rounding
Habuba Kabira, shell of a dome house made of clay bricks
Habuba Kabira, Milking a goat in the courtyard: Grandmother and granddaughters
Habuba Kabira, water reservoir for field-irrigation, in the background motor pump of the well
Habuba Kabira, View from the inside of the room while constructing the dome
Habuba Kabira, construction of cantilever domes
Habuba Kabira, view over cantilever domes during construction
Habuba Kabira, the new dome house has received its first plaster layer
Habuba Kabira, building a cantilever dome house – in the foreground clay bricks, which are to be used soon
