(Photo By: Mordechai Aviam/Courtesy)
By TOI Staff - October 23, 2021
Archaeologists in northern Israel have uncovered mosaic floors in the ruins of a building they believe is the lost Church of the Apostles, in the biblical village of Bethsaida on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Christians believe the legendary basilica was built on the location of the onetime home of Jesus’s apostles Peter and Andrew.
During excavations over this summer by the Kinneret Institute for Galilee Archeology at Kinneret College and Nyack College — led by Prof. Mordechai Aviam and Prof. Steven Notley — the mosaic floor of the supposed church from the Byzantine period was discovered.
Archaeologists had announced the discovery of the purported church building in 2019, and have been working at the site since.
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