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Surroundings:

Plan of the ancient remainsChurch of St. John built over early Byzantine churchNeolithic settlement, seventh millenium BCMalha - Bronze Age NecropolisJerusalem CardoJerusalem CardoMadaba mapJerusalem on the Madaba map.Jerusalem on the Madaba map.Ancient map of Jerusalem.Ancient map of Jerusalem.Madaba mapAncient map of Jerusalem.Ancient map of Jerusalem behind the door.Pool of SiloamAntonia FortressPedestral HadrianTitus' triumphal processionJerusalem BethesdaPool of BethesdaGolden gateMosaic floor from 5th century.

Location:

  • Israel, Qiryat HaYovel
  • geo:31.767778,35.163055
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 2xx / 6xx

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=53623

Annotations

Inside the church  of St John the Baptist are the remains of an ancient mosaic floor and a natural grotto — identified as John’s birthplace and believed to be part of his parents’ home.

See:

  1. https://biblewalks.com/Sites/StJohnBaHarim.html
  2. Jack Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament: The Life of Jesus and the Beginning of the Early Church (revised ed.). Princeton University Press. p. 4.
  3. Félix-Marie Abel, Geographie de la Palestine. Vol. 2 Geographie Politique. Les villes. Librairie Lecoffre 1938, pp. 295f
  4. Moshe Sharon, Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, D–F. Vol. 3. BRILL 2004.

Relevant museums

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Ein Kerem, Mary's Spring

Virgin Mary`s Spring.

Ein Karem

Ancient village .


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