Mount Tabor
— — a hill that stands by itself for a reason.
Not only on a wall.
“A round dome of a mountain that lifts cleanly out of the Jezreel Valley, with nothing in the foreground to compete with it. The summit holds the Franciscan Church of the Transfiguration, finished in 1924 by Antonio Barluzzi, and a smaller Greek Orthodox church beside it. Pilgrims have been climbing the path since the fourth century, and the road that winds up the eastern side is still a switchback you take in second gear. From the top the valley opens north toward the Sea of Galilee and west toward Mount Carmel. from the studio
Mount Tabor, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Mount Tabor rises about 575 metres above sea level on the eastern edge of the Jezreel Valley in Lower Galilee, roughly 17 kilometres west of the Sea of Galilee. Its near-symmetrical dome stands isolated from the surrounding plain, which is why it has anchored the regional skyline since antiquity. The mountain is named in Joshua 19 and Judges 4, where Deborah and Barak mustered their forces against Sisera, and Christian tradition since the fourth century has identified it as the site of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
The summit holds the Franciscan Church of the Transfiguration, completed in 1924 by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi on the footprint of a twelfth-century Crusader basilica and a fourth-century Byzantine church before it. Two side chapels honour Moses and Elijah. A smaller Greek Orthodox church dedicated to the prophet Elijah stands a short walk away, finished in 1911. Excavations have also uncovered a Crusader-era Benedictine monastery and the remains of a Mamluk-period fortress along the summit ridge.
The summit is reached from the village of Daburiyya by a narrow switchback road that climbs the eastern face; tour buses transfer pilgrims to shuttle taxis at the lower car park because the hairpins are too tight for full-size coaches. The walking path used by pilgrims since the Byzantine era still climbs from the same village. The Franciscan church is generally open from morning until late afternoon, with a midday break. The Feast of the Transfiguration is observed each year on 6 August.