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Five Pilgrims Who Drew Jordan’s Sacred Map

Long before guidebooks or travel blogs existed, the Jordan River served as a compass. Along its banks—where water divides desert and fertile land—some of the earliest narratives in pilgrimage history were written. By the 4th century CE, travelers ...

Five Lesser-Known Spiritual Landmarks in Jordan

Jordan’s terrain is traced by pathways older than memory—a land formed by movement. Caravans once crossed its desert basins, monks withdrew into sandstone valleys, families migrated with the seasons, and pilgrims shared bread and stories under ...

Pella, City of a Thousand Faces: The Decapolis and the Echo of a Galilean Teacher

When the Gospels say that Jesus crossed to “the other side of the Jordan,” they do not point to an abstract space. They gesture toward a concrete, layered geography: Transjordan, a belt of land between river and desert where cities shaped by ...

Mount Nebo Today: Mosaics, Memory, and Horizon

Just a few kilometers from Madaba, Mount Nebo impresses not with its height, but with its enduring presence. Rising from the western highlands of Jordan, this site—associated since ...

Experience Southern Jordan

From Jesus Christ’s Baptism Site to ancient churches and ruins, Jordan is filled with sacred places across the kingdom, and Jordan’s southern region in particular has many incredible spiritual and religious destinations to experience.

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