The church was built in Tabkh, where, according to tradition, Jesus Christ performed the miracle of multiplying loaves and fishes: he fed 5 thousand (not counting women and children...) a man with five slices of bread and two fish.
Around 383, the pilgrim Egeria visited the holy places in Tabkh and left notes about it that have survived to this day. Egeria claimed that the stone on which Jesus laid out the bread was now used as an altar around which the church was built.
In 614, during the Persian attack, the church was destroyed. For more than 1300 years, these holy places have been hidden under the ashes. In 1888, the ruins were bought by the German Catholic Society of Palestinian Missions, and in 1892 the first archaeological excavations were started.In 1932, archaeologists Mader and Schneider discovered an old masonry with preserved mosaics.
The interior of the church is specially made very modest so as not to drown out the beauty of early Christian mosaics.In Byzantine times, the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes was decorated with mosaics, which is rightfully considered one of the most beautiful in the Holy Land. An unknown master depicted water flowers and lake birds of Galilee, as well as the famous Christian image: two fish and a basket of bread — symbols of the miracle that happened here.
In the courtyard there is a fountain with seven taps in the form of fish (symbolizing the seven sources of Tabhi), in which gold and silver fish swim ...
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