Capernaum's starkly beautiful White Synagogue, today in ruins, was built of imported white limestone rather than the local black basalt, giving it a dramatic appearance that has lasted through to this day. The ruins include tall columns, marble steps, and symbols of many types. The synagogue was built in the 3rd or 4th century AD on the site of an earlier synagogue believed to be the one where Jesus taught.
Capernaum is known as the home of Peter and several more of Jesus' original disciples, and is the place where he began to gather them around him, saying "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
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Capernaum is known as the home of Peter and several more of Jesus' original disciples, and is the place where he began to gather them around him, saying "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
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Visit my etsy shop for another view of the White Synagogue (available as a straight print or a Photoverse print).
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