Photo of the Day 365

Monastery, Petra, Jordan, 1998

Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt

The moon peeks over the imposing architecture of the Monastery (Al Deir) in Petra, Jordan. The formidable Monastery, built more than 2,000 years ago, was probably a shrine for the Nabataean people of ancient Petra.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Petra, Ancient City of Stone," December 1998, National Geographic magazine)