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The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, shortened to the Church of the Multiplication, is a Roman Catholic church located at Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The modern church rests on the site of two earlier churches.
in this place, Jesus performed the famous miracle of feeding 5,000 people with only 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes.
it is the oldest complete church in the Christian world, was built by the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. It replaced the original church of Constantine the Great, built over the cave where Jesus was born.
It is the place of birth of John the Baptist — who announced the coming of Jesus Christ, his cousin — in the picturesque village of Ein Karem 7.5km south-west of Jerusalem.
Luke’s Gospel tells of the circumstances of John’s birth (1:5-24, 39-66).
The Church of the Transfiguration marks the place, on Mount Tabor, rising dome-like from the Plain of Jezreel, in Galiliee is the mountain where the Transfiguration of Jesus took place.
The Dead Sea is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
Its surface and shores are 430.5m below sea level, Earth’s lowest elevation on land. It is 304m deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity, it is one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water 9.6 times as salty as the ocean.
The Church of Dormition Abbey, on hill of Mount Zion, the highest point in ancient Jerusalem, is the location is the place where the Virgin Mary died — or “fell asleep”.
