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We see in the museum an Ancient Galilee Boat, also known as the Jesus Boat, is an ancient fishing boat from the 1st century AD, discovered in 1986 on the north-west shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The remains of the boat, 27 feet (8.27 meters) long, 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) wide and with a maximum preserved height of 4.3 feet (1.3 meters), first appeared during a drought, when the waters of the Lake receded.
The Bahá’í Gardens in Haifa comprise a staircase of nineteen terraces extending all the way up the northern slope of Mount Carmel. The gardens frame panoramic views of the city, the Galilee Hills and the Mediterranean Sea.
The baptismal site on the banks of the Jordan River, Qasr al-Yahud, is the site where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. We visit the site, and renew baptismal vows.
Basilica of the Annunciation, is a Latin Catholic Church in Nazareth, in northern Israel. It was established over the site where was the house of Virgin Mary, and where angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced that she would conceive and bear the Son of God, Jesus.
The boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, which gives you a breathtaking spiritual Galilee journey – sailing on a wooden boat – which gives you the same experience of how Jesus used to sail on these boats in his life in the Galilee.
Caesarea Philippi, was an ancient Roman city located at the southwestern base of Mount Hermon, Jesus announced he would establish a church and gave authority over it to the apostle Simon — whom he renamed Peter. where he said to Peter: “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.
The ancient city of Caesarea Maritima was built by Herod the Great about 25–13 BCE as a major port. It served as an administrative center of Judaea Province of the Roman Empire, and later as the capital of the Byzantine Palaestina Prima province. Caesarea National Park is one of, if not Israel’s, most impressive archaeological site.
Camel rides in Israel offer a unique way to explore the landscape of the Negev Desert. Riding a camel is a unique experience and one which you are unlikely to ever forget, and where better to do it than in the authentic setting that is the desert.
Capernaum became Jesus’ home town and the scene of many of his miracles. It was also the home of the first disciples Jesus called — the fishermen Peter, Andrew, James and John, and the tax collector Matthew.
Today an ultra-modern Catholic church, perched on eight sturdy pillars, hovers protectively over the site of Peter’s house, where Jesus have lodged.
The Church of St Anne is the best-preserved Crusader church in Jerusalem. It marks the traditional site of the home of Jesus’ maternal grandparents, Anne and Joachim, and the birthplace of the Virgin Mary.
Next to the church is the large excavation area of the Pools of Bethesda, where Christ healed a sick man (John 5:2-9).
The midnight Mass beamed from Bethlehem to television viewers worldwide on Christmas Eve is celebrated in the Church of St Catherine of Alexandria. This 19th-century church adjoins the 6th-century Church of the Nativity, built over the cave where Jesus was born. It even shares a wall with the Nativity church. The Church of St Catherine is the parish church for Bethlehem’s Catholics. It is also often used by groups of pilgrims.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem covers the site of the most important event in human history: The place where Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
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”.
The garden of Gethsemane, near the foot of the Mount of Olives, is named in the New Testament as the place where Jesus went with his disciples to pray the night before he was crucified.
Beside the garden is the Church of All Nations, built over the rock on which Jesus is believed to have prayed in agony before he was betrayed by Judas Iscariot and arrested.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is Israel’s largest cultural institution and is ranked among the world’s leading art and archeology museums. Founded in 1965.
We visit the museum to see: The Shrine of the Book houses the Dead Sea Scrolls which are some of the oldest Biblical scrolls ever found. Adjacent to this is an amazing model of Second Temple Era Jerusalem which reconstructs the topography and architectural character of the city as it was prior to its destruction by the Romans in 66 CE.
It’s the oldest city on earth. Here Jesus healed Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, and dined with Zacchaeus, the rich tax collector. And both Cleopatra and Herod the Great coveted this lush oasis.
The Cenacle is on the upper floor of a two-storey building near the Church of the Dormition, south of the Zion Gate in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Where two major events in the early Christian Church are commemorated: The Last Supper and the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles.
The Mount of Beatitudes, where Jesus’ most famous discourse, the Sermon on the Mount, took place. It is one of the most beautifully serene places in the Holy Land.
Overlooking the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Recalling Christ’s teaching of the Lord’s Prayer, this church features translations of the prayer in 140 languages, inscribed on colourful ceramic plaques.
The Church of the Primacy of St Peter. This squat building of black basalt, built in 1934, is where Jesus made his third appearance to his disciples after his Resurrection. The rock incorporated in the church floor is the place where Jesus prepared breakfast. It was known to medieval pilgrims as Mensa Christ (the table of Christ).
Qumran is famous as the hiding place of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a literary treasure trove hidden since shortly after the time of Christ.
The site is north-west of the Dead Sea, about 15km south of Jericho and about 1.5km west of the road that runs along the western shore of the Dead Sea.
The Caves where shepherds “kept watch over their flock” still abound in the area east of Bethlehem. Here, the Gospel of Luke tells us, an angel announced the birth of Jesus.
It is One of the most striking churches in Jerusalem commemorates the apostle Peter’s triple denial of his Master, his immediate repentance and his reconciliation with Christ after the Resurrection.
It is Perched at the western edge of Mount Carmel, high above the Mediteranean and the coastal city of Haifa.
The name of the 19th-century monastery – Latin for “Star of the Sea” – refers not to the magnificent view, but rather to an early title accorded Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Their route is called the Via Dolorosa (Way of Sorrows). This is also the name of the street they follow through the Old City of Jerusalem, stopping at 14 Stations of the Cross as they identify with the suffering of Jesus on his way to crucifixion.
The Wedding Church in Cana of Galilee is the place where it is celebrated as the scene of Jesus’ first miracle. the changing of water into wine at a wedding feast.
Judaism’s holiest place is the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Part of the retaining wall erected by Herod the Great in 20 BC to support the vast plaza on which he rebuilt the Temple, it is venerated as the sole remnant of the Temple.
A beautiful spot of Jerusalem and the Old City, for photos and explanation.
