2020_01 St. George Greek Orthodox Church

This church is also called "The Church of the Map", because when it was being built in the second half of the 6th century, they discovered a mosaic map of the Holy Land. The map is the earliest known map of the area. The map is oriented with east at the top. From east to west (top to bottom) it covers the topography and geography from Karak to the Palestinian coast, and from north to south it covers from Tyre to the Nile Delta.