Mount Tabor

Yesterday was spent most on Mount Tabor, site of the Transfiguration. The church is very impressive and had to deal with a unique problem: the old crusader ruins were still visible and could have been used. The solution was to build what I'm calling a spilt level church.

The Church of the Transfiguration. On the left are ruins
of a Benedictine abbey, on the right the Franciscan friary.

The spilt-level church. 

In the entrance, they have a grate to drop in prayers requests, and I know a lot of us used it to drop off prayers for our teaching parishes.

I intend to fit Nazareth in this post, but I have run out of room.