
Capernaum, Israel
Capernaum
Jesus' base of operations — a black basalt fishing village with a synagogue and a house the earliest Christians already treated as Peter's.
Biblical significance
Matthew calls it "his own city". Excavations have uncovered a fourth-century white limestone synagogue built directly on the black basalt foundations of the first-century one where Jesus taught. Nearby, a modest first-century house was converted into a house-church by the mid-first century and enclosed in an octagonal church in the fifth — the strongest archaeological case anywhere for a named New Testament residence.
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Best time to go
Morning, before the coach parties.
Visitor notes
Small entry fee. Run by the Franciscans; modest dress enforced.
Coordinates
32.8807, 35.5751
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