Capernaum Photos

View northwest: Western Capernaum with the white synagogue, modern church, and Franciscan monastery, looking toward the hills of lower Galilee.

View southeast: The Greek Orthodox Church of the Twelve Apostles (eastern Capernaum) with a Galilee Boat leaving the northern shore, headed to Kibbutz Ginosar across the lake on the western shore.

View northeast: The White Synagogue of Capernaum (center); The Church of the Twelve Apostles with its red domes (upper right); Capernaum National Park with Galilee Boats (top right).

View north: The prayer hall of the White Synagogue with benches and columns that archaeologists believe supported a second story, possibly for women (see the model on page 238).

View west: A carved stone on a frieze from the Byzantine Synagogue of Capernaum, called the “Ark of the Covenant” carving (see the inset on page 237).

View north: The limestone foundation of the White Synagogue built on the first-century AD basalt Synagogue, which some people believe was the “Synagogue of jesus.”

View northwest: The White Synagogue has a columned prayer hall (upper left), annex (center right), and front porch with staircases on either end. The porch entrances face south toward Jerusalem.

View northeast: The south-side entrance to the Greek Orthodox church. The Church serves mostly local Orthodox Christians—It is less of a tourist site.

View East: The northern shore and grounds of eastern Capernaum, including The Greek Orthodox Church (red domes) and monastery, with Galilee boats docked at Capernaum National Park.

Inside the Church: One of the Greek Orthodox Church’s beautiful iconography pieces showing Jesus in a fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee with His disciples.

The grounds of the Church are secluded and quiet except for the occasional chirping of a peacock. You will find people here on benches overlooking the lake with scriptures and journals in hand.

Inside the Church of the Twelve Apostles (eastern Capernaum). This is one of the most beautiful churches in the Holy Land, with iconography of the apostles of Christ.

In this image (left side) we see the woman who had faith that by touching Jesus’s garment she would be healed. We also see Jesus healing a blind man (right side).

View west: The northern shore looking toward Mt. Arbel, The horns of Hattin, the Valley of the Doves, and Mt. Nitai (all top left). Tabgha is in the trees (center right).

View East: the northern shore from the promenade that connects Tabgha with the three Capernaums (western, eastern, and Israel’s National Park).

View east: Inside the modern Church where worship services are held, you can look down on the floor and walls of St. Peter’s House below the church (see the top photo on page 248).

The Byzantine Church consisting of a small central octagon and a larger concentric octagon.

The beautiful and ubiquitous Bougainvillea flower at the entrance to western Capernaum.

View east: The modern Catholic Church built over the excavations of the Byzantine church and first-century AD private dwellings.

The glass in the center of St. Peter’s church that covers the floor and walls of the first-century AD dwelling (see the top photos on page 246).

View east: This photo was taken from the shore of western Capernaum south of the White Synagogue. It looks toward the Sea of Galilee’s eastern shore and the Golan heights above it.