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Mount Tabor is a rounded mountain rising alone from the Galilee plain, honored as the place of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
Mount Tabor rises alone and dome-shaped from the flat Jezreel Valley, visible for miles across lower Galilee. Christian tradition has honored it as the mountain of the Transfiguration since the earliest centuries, and churches have crowned its summit for well over a thousand years.
The graceful Church of the Transfiguration at the top was designed by the architect Antonio Barluzzi in the twentieth century. Its two side chapels remember Moses and Elijah, who appeared alongside Jesus in the Gospel account.
Here the divine light of Jesus was revealed, with Moses and Elijah appearing beside him and a voice speaking from the cloud.
The Gospels place the Transfiguration here. "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" (Matthew 17:5)
Standing at the summit, with the Galilee spread out far below, pilgrims often feel the sense of a threshold between earth and heaven that the story itself describes.
In lower Galilee, rising from the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.
The Church of the Transfiguration and sweeping views across the Jezreel Valley below, one of the finest vistas in the region.
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