Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes

Tabgha Monestery
Israel, Tiberias
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Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes

Tabgha Monestery
Israel, Tiberias
The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha was erected on the northwestern shore of the Lake of Tiberias on the spot where, according to Christian tradition, several thousand people were miraculously fed by Jesus Christ. The Church of the Benedictine Order was built in 1982 in neo-Byzantine style on the ruins of a church destroyed in the 7th century.
The church is three-aisled, with a modest interior, so as not to overshadow the beauty of the mosaics of the 5th century preserved on the floor depicting animals and plants. The altar of the church is a stone, on which, according to legend, Jesus Christ laid out five slices of bread and two fish to feed 5,000 people, as evidenced by the mosaic on the front of the altar depicting fish and a basket of bread.
In the churchyard there is a fountain with 7 cranes in the form of fish, symbolizing the 7 sources of Tabgha, in which gold and silver fish swim. Next to the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes is the Church of the Primacy of the Apostle Peter.

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The modern church at Tabgha (En Sheva in Hebrew) near the Sea of ​ ​ Galilee, dedicated to the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes with which Jesus Christ fed the 5.000 hungry ("not counting women and children"), was built in the eighties of the last century on the foundations of a Byzantine church dating back to 350 from Christmas. The first church was destroyed by the Persians, and remains of mosaics with images of loaves and fish and a monolith found during excavations, on which loaves and fish are supposed to have been laid out.
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