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The earliest monastery was constructed by the Byzantines in the 6th century CE above the cave traditionally said to be that where Jesus spent forty days and forty nights fasting and meditating during the temptation of Satan, [1] [2] about three kilometers northwest of Jericho. The monastery receives its name from the mountain which the early ...
Mount of Temptation, in Palestinian Arabic Jebel Quruntul (Arabic: جبل لقرنطل), is a mountain over the city of Jericho in the West Bank, in the State of Palestine; ancient Christian tradition identifies it as the location of the temptation of Jesus described in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, in which it is said that, from "a high place", the Devil offered Jesus ...
Near Jericho and Qasr al-Yahud. Jacob's well in Nablus. Jericho – the site of the Mount of Temptation and of the Sycomore Tree of Zacchaeus. Mar Saba, the most important and largest monastery in the Holy Land and the resting place of Saint Sabas which was also the monk who built this monastery.
U.S. Census map of Jericho. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.1 square miles (11 km 2), all land. [6] There is another community known as Jericho in New York, located in the extreme Northeast corner of the state, in the Town of Altona, County of Clinton. It lies primarily along the Rand Hill Road.
Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, a Rinzai monastery located in Livingston Manor. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Woodstock. New York Mahayana Temple, a non-sectarian Buddhist monastery located in South Cairo. Zen Mountain Monastery, a Mountains and Rivers Order monastery located in Mount Tremper.
Monastery of Mount Sarantario (of Temptation), Jericho [34] Monastery of Martha and Maria (nunnery/convent); in Bethany [34] Monastery of the Twelve Apostles; in Tiberias [34] Monastery of Abba Gerasimos of the Jordan [34] Monastery of Abba Theodosius the Cenobiarch; [34] Judaean desert near Bethlehem; Monastery of Jacob's Well in Samaria; in ...
2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements. Jericho has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 along with the rest of the West Bank. It was the first city handed over to Palestinian Authority control in accordance with the Oslo Accords. [101]
The Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí, Israel. The Baháʼí Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Baháʼu'lláh in 19th century Persia, and consider their religion to progress from or succeed Bábism or the Bábi Faith ( Persian: بابی ها Bábí há) founded by the Báb earlier in the century – emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.