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Review of Church of the Beatitudes

Beatitudes Church located on a hill overlooking th...

Beatitudes Church located on a hill overlooking the Sea of Galilee
Famous place where Jesus taught the Beatitudes
Built in the form of an octagon in honor of the Beatitudes

The Beatitudes Church is a church built to commemorate Jesus' preaching about Beatitudes on the Mount Sermon. Jesus' sermon, called the Sermon on the Mount, is recorded in the Bible chapters of Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6. The places in each record are slightly different, but they coincide with the hills on the shore of Lake Galilee. Today, believed to be either the Boksan or Suhun Mountains, on the northwest coast of Lake Galilee, located between Capernaum and Gennesaret, about 3 km from Tabgha, where the five miracles of O'Brien are said. It is the distance (Matthew 14; 13-21, Mark 6: 30-44, Luke 9: 10-17, John 6: 1-14).

The church was built in the fourth century to commemorate the place where the Byzantines preached the Beatitudes, but in 614 they were destroyed by Persia. Today's Beatitudes Church was built by the Franciscan Sisters in 1939 on the summit of Baptist with the support of Benito Mussolini (1922-1943), designed by the famous Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi (1884-1960). . The roof of the church has an octagonal structure, symbolizing eight blessings, and the contents of the Beatitudes are written one by one in Latin on eight glass windows. The pavilion in the front courtyard of the church is engraved with six symbols of faith, mercy, patience, justice, thoughtfulness, and self-control. It also houses a cloak worn by Pope Paul VI when he visited.