Postcards from Jordan

Cover From Jordan

Postcards from Jordan - Petra

Postcards from Jordan - Petra

Postcard from Jordan

Postcard from Jordan

Stamps from Jordan

Mushrooms, issued 2010

Stamps from Jordan

The Hashemites, issued 2003

Postcard from Jordan

Postcard from Jordan

Stamps from Jordan

COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE - TOURISM
Date of issue: December 2010
Topic: Tourism

the issue consists of 4 variation and a miniature sheet (block)

Denomination: 10, 20, 30, 40 piasters stamps
50 piasters for the block
size: 40x30 mm and 70x90 for the block
quantity: 5000 stamps for each value and 5000 blocks
desiners: partners for marketing and solutions
printer: Post Office Foundation Press (POFP), Karachi, Pakistan

10 p.stamp shows Ajlun Castle
20 p.stamp shows Amman
30 p. stamp shows Karak (note the wrong spelling of Karak in Arabic: الكراك instead of the correct الكرك )
40 p. stamps shows Showbak

50 p. block shows Jarash (Hadrian Gate)

Stamps from Jordan

Pope Benedict XVI visit to Jordan

Date of issue: 08\05\2009
Denomination: 0.20, 0.30, 0.40 and 0.50 JOD
Quantity: 15 000

Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded John Paul II.

Postcard from Jordan

An old postcard from Jarash, Jordan (During 80's)

The Forum of Jarash and the Oval Piazza: forum (Latin, "marketplace"; pl. fora) was the public space in the middle of a Roman city. In addition to its standard function as a marketplace, a forum was a gathering place of great social significance, and often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions and debates, rendezvous, meetings, et cetera.

Postcard from Jordan

An old postcard from Jordan
Jarash, Virgin's bath

Jerash is known for the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River. It is sometimes misleadingly referred to as the "Pompeii of the Middle East or Asia", referring to its size, extent of excavation and level of preservation (though Jerash was never buried by a volcano). Jerash is considered one of the most important and best preserved Roman cities in the Near East. It was a city of the Decapolis.

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An old postcard from Jordan (during 70's)
Petra, the Monastery (El-Dair)

Giving the Treasury a run for its money as the most impressive monument at Petra is the Monastery (a.k.a. al-Deir or ad-Dayr in Arabic), which is about an hour's climb north of Petra's city center.

The Monastery is beautifully carved, though much less decorated than the Treasury, and so huge that even the doorway is several stories tall. Its name, like most Petra structures, does not reflect reality: it was probably a Nabatean temple.


Like the "Treasury," the name "Monastery" is a rather inaccurate nickname, which is probably based on its remote location and some inscribed crosses in the interior. Althought it may have been later used as a church (or even a hermitage), it was probably a temple. It may have been dedicated to the deified Nabatean king Obodas I, who reigned in the 1st century BC.

Postcard from Jordan

An old postcard from Jordan
General view of Amman's Downtown during the 60's