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Location

  • Jordan, Bethany
  • geo:31.837446,35.550068

Period or year

  • 3xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Identifiers

Al-Maghtas - Bethany

data access 34639

Bethany: Byzantine Church  is considered to be the original location of the Baptism of Jesus. 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Maghtas

See:

  1. Charles Miller, S.M. , "Bethany Beyond the Jordan". CNEWA WORLD. Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA).(January–February 2002) 2015- http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=942&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=hq&pageno=2
  2. Mohammad Waheeb, Dr Abdelaziz Mahmod, Eyad Al-Masr, A unique Byzantine complex near the Jordan River in southern levant and a tentative interpretation, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (MAA) 2013

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Creators: Entry created by Ludwinski (2017-01-25) , last updated by Elżbieta (2024-02-19), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/34639
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: Ludwinski and Elżbieta, Al-Maghtas - Bethany. https://vici.org/vici/34639, accessed 2026-11-07.