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   This page is a gallery  of the Biblical sites that were selected by BibleWalks.com staff and readers as the "site of the month" during year 2008.

   The selection of the "site of the month" is usually a new site that was added during that past month and was considered at that time as an important addition to the web site and worthy of highlighting. You can look on these sites in order to visit these  "best" sites.

 

 

 

 

 

The sites are ordered from the recent month on the top.

 

To see more of the site, click on its header.

 

 

 

 

 

  May

    2008

 

(recent)

 

  Monastery of the Holy Cross

   A medieval Monastery located in the valley of the Cross (Rehaviah). Here, according to tradition, grew the tree of the Cross.

View of the Monastery of the Cross - from the east

John 19:25: "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene".

 

 
 

April

    2008

 

 

 

Dormition Abbey

    A grand German Benedictine Abbey located on top of Mount Zion, commemorating the memory of Virgin Mary, in the traditional site of her death.

 

Dormition Abbey, mount Zion

 

John 8, 12: "I am the light of the world"

 

 
 

 

March

    2008

 

 

 

  Carmelite Monastery,    Stella Maris

 

A Carmelite monastery and church on the west top side of the Carmel. The structure was rebuilt in the 19th C, and is one of the most popular sites in Haifa.

 

 

1 Kings 18:42: "...And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; "

 

 
 

 

February

    2008

 

 

   

Khirbet Suggar

 

  Ruins of a Roman/Byzantine village on the western edge of Kziv creek.  In the site are traces of buildings, sheepfold, installations, and traces of a church. On the hillside are stone quarries and rock-hewn tombs.

 

Khirbet Suggar - the sheepfold.

 

 
    

  January

    2008

 

 

 

   

Khirbet Manot (Manueth)

 

  Ruins of a Roman/Byzantine village on the western edge of Kziv creek. In the site are ruins of a Crusaders fortified farm complex, including a sugar processing factory.

 

Manot: press base for sugar refinery

 

 

 
         

 

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This page was last updated on May 9, 2008    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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