Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — Abraham’s Birthplace. [ARTICLE]

Abraham’s Birthplace.

Not far from Aleppo is situated the little village of Orfah (the ancient Ur of the Chaldees,) which is of great historical interest, it having been the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham. The inhabitants, mostly Arabs and Jews, still point out a small building lying outside the town which they declare to be the place where Abraham first saw the light. It is kuown among them as “the house of the friend of God.”