The church was built in the mid-20th century over the ruins of earlier churches and chapels destroyed over the centuries. A huge stone set in a niche is known as the Stone of Hiding - a hiding place for the baby John during Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents
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The church was built in the mid-20th century over the ruins of earlier churches and chapels destroyed over the centuries. A huge stone set in a niche is known as the Stone of Hiding - a hiding place for the baby John during Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents
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Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.
Virgin Mary`s Spring.
Under the modern Church of St. John the Baptist are remains of the monastery dedicated to St. Sabas.
St. John Ba Harim over Byzantine church.