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<< Our Photo Pages >> Mary's Well (Nazareth) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Palestine

Submitted by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 12 January 2011  Page Views: 7085

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Mary's Well (Nazareth) Alternative Name: St Mary's Spring, Mary's Fountain
Country: Palestine
NOTE: This site is 8.049 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Nazareth
Latitude: 32.697177N  Longitude: 35.307826E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Mary's Well (Nazareth)
Mary's Well (Nazareth) submitted by Sunny100 : Site in Palestine. Drawing by David Roberts of Mary's Well, Nazareth, in 1839. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in Palestine

Mary's Well/spring stands at the side of a road in the lower downtown suburbs of the city of Nazareth in northern Palestine. Today a modern stone wellhouse and dried-up fountain stands over the ancient well where Mary, mother of Jesus, came for water for her family. About 150 metres north is the place of the Annunciation where Gabriel the Archangel visited her and spoke the words of the 'hail Mary'. St Gabriel's Orthodox church stands on that site today.

The present wellhouse was built in the 1960s as a reconstruction of an earlier 19th century building. Rather sadly though no water flows from the conduit and its fountain is no longer. This pre-Christian, ancient spring has stood at this site from time immemorial, but in the early 1st century CE was believed to have been used on a daily basis by Mary, mother of Jesus and wife of Joseph. Since then it has been a place of pilgrimage venerated by the people there and beyond for its great sacredness, and no doubt miraculous powers. Despite being dry the building seems to be well looked after with its rounded archway and stonework in good condition.

Excavations at the well have revealed a possible Byzantine/medieval canal system with tunnels running underground to nearby buildings and in the direction of the church of St Gabriel; the spring is believed to flowed from beneath that church. Also, pottery from the 2nd century CE was found here.
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Mary's Well (Nazareth)
Mary's Well (Nazareth) submitted by ivanjohnson : Nazareth, Fount of Mary 1898 (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Mary's Well (Nazareth) by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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