Mea culpa. During our tour of Israel we saw many churches and sites where Jesus had been. Before we our conference started we also did a tour of the tunnels under the Western Wall which included the area where Jesus would have overturned the money changers tables. Revolution! We saw so many churches I’m not only all churched out and not only in awe as to the work involved with these churches but I’ve also forgotten which photos are from which church…I should have written them down in order as we saw them. In order to not bore/overwhelm you I’m giving just a few pictures below.

Here you can see how close Jordan is to Israel. This is the site where John the Baptist baptised Jesus and you can how it’s possible to walk down the steps and be baptised yourself, they do that there. It doesn’t show in this photo but Jordan have a similar area on the other side and they say Jesus was baptised on their side.

Loved the work in this stained glass window, there were many examples of this throughout.

Some more beautiful work. Whatever I may think of churches I do admire the work people have put into them and many photos I took were just to admire the work.

I remember this church clearly but not what it was. You can see I’m inside a room looking at another structure and inside is another room which is rather important to Jesus. It’s highly regulated and took at least 40 minutes of queuing to get inside as only five people are allowed in at any one time, you can’t take photos, you get to the room by going through another small room and when you get inside you’re only given a minute or so just enough time to do a Hail Mary or something.

Building a church around an old church or around an important site was fairly common. It must be an incredibly powerful service in one of these churches.

I’m pretty certain this photo is where Joseph the Carpenter lived. I was under the impression he was fairly poor but we were told things must have been totally opposite to this as he had a cistern for water and lots of space.

This is the room where the Last Supper was held. I’m sure you all know this meal was actually for Passover and they would have talked about the story of the Exodus from Egypt during this meal.

Some more fabulous work. There were so, so many mosaics on floors in Israel and Jordan. We even visited a factory set up for disabled workers and the attention to detail is truly awe inspiring.

Another example of a church near a church. In this one they left the old church where it was (with a synagogue next door) and built the new church over the old one, with external stairs.