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Location

  • Israel, Ora
  • geo:31.764454,35.157799

Period or year

  • 4xx~ / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Ein Karem, Church of the Visitation

data access 21922

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

See:

  1. https://biblewalks.com/Sites/GreekEinKerem.html

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-08-11) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/21922
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Ein Karem, Church of the Visitation. https://vici.org/vici/21922, accessed 2026-11-06.