Inn of the Good Samaritan
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The Inn of the Good Samaritan is a national park, museum, ancient archaeological site and former inn administered by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority located near Ma'ale Adumim, halfway between J
The Good Samaritan Museum entrance
The "Inn of the Good Samaritan Museum" in 2010, during construction work to expand Highway 1 (Israel) to a dual carriageway, separating the inn from the Crusader castle ruins
Roof over the restored mosaic floor of the Byzantine church. The structure can again be used for Christian worship.
Welcome sign at the Good Samaritan Museum
Gaza synagogue
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The Gaza synagogue was an ancient Jewish synagogue, now an archaeological site in the Rimal district of Gaza City, Palestine. Built in the early 6th century during the Byzantine period, it was destroy
Inn of the Good Samaritan
…mostly dating from the 4th-7th centuries that were collected from churches and Jewish and Samaritan synagogues from the West Bank and from the ancient Gaza synagogue. Beginning in biblical times, Israelite and later Jewish pilgrims from Galilee took the Jericho-Jerusalem road passing by the site to worship at the…
Section of the synagogue's mosaic floor on display at the Museum of the Good Samaritan
The site in the late 1960s
King David playing the lyre on display in the Israel Museum
Eshtemoa menorah