Religious Sites

What does Mount Tabor mean to tourists? Author Tamar Orvell summarized his visit to Israel, “In Israel’s Lower Galilee, looms Mount Tabor. Something about this mound of earth at the ...

Kiryat Ye’arim and the Ark of the Covenant The site of Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant is based on Jewish history. In the Bible, this village is called ...

Panorama of Ein Karem from the Church of the Visitation The village of Ein Karem in Judaea not far from Jerusalem was mentioned several times in the Bible (Jeremiah 6:1; Nehemiah ...

Walking up from Ein Karem What is the Church of the Visitation? The Virgin Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, came to visit (Luke 1:39-56) her cousin Elizabeth (Elisheva), who ...

There are two churches by this name in Ein Karem (officially Ein Kerem). Church of John the Baptist Ba Harim is a Catholic church, in the center of Ein Karem, ...

This is the Catholic Church of the Annunciation – or Basilica of the Annunciation The Catholic Church of the Annunciation with its towering cupola is one of the biggest, most magnificent ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation Since the Greek Orthodox tradition holds that the Annunciation occurred while Mary was drawing water from a local underground spring in Nazareth, it was only ...

Cana of the Galilee The Arab village of Kafr Cana in the Lower Galilee has been identified in Christian tradition as Cana of the Galilee. Here, according to tradition, Jesus performed two ...

No one can deny the importance of the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth to the Christian world. The church was established at the site where, according to Roman Catholic tradition, ...

Paran The Desert of Paran or Wilderness of Paran (also sometimes spelled Pharan or Faran; מדבר פארן) is in the Sinai Peninsula 35 miles from Mount Sinai. The Paran Monatery in the ...