Tabgha/En Sheva Attractions
The "place of the seven springs", known in Arabic as Tabgha and in Hebrew as En Sheva, is the traditional site of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 8,1-9). The access to the site (12km/7.5mi from Tiberias) is on the right of the road to Capernaum, which turns right off the road running north from Tiberias.
History
The first church on the site, an aisleless building measuring 15.50m/51ft by 9.50m/31ft, was built in the fourth century.
History
The first church on the site, an aisleless building measuring 15.50m/51ft by 9.50m/31ft, was built in the fourth century.
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In the fifth century it was replaced by a larger three-aisled cruciform basilica. The mosaics of this second church, excavated by Mader and Schneider in 1932, were housed in a new church built over them, adjoining which a monastery was founded by German Benedictines in 1956. The third church in turn was demolished and replaced by a new one, built in 1980-82 by the German Holy Land Association of Cologne.
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