Religious Sites in Jordan

Jordan River and Bethany
   Jordan River and Bethany

The Jordan River is a 251-kilometre-long (156 mi) river in the Middle East that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and on to the Dead Sea...

Madaba
   Madaba

Madaba is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. Madaba is located 19 miles South-West.

Tomb of Aaron
   Tomb of Aaron

The Tomb of Aaron is the name of the supposed burial place of Aaron, the brother of Moses. There are two descriptions of its location in the Pentateuch, and different

mount nebo
   Mount Nebo

Mount nebo is one of the biblical sites that can be seen during a trip to Jordan. According to the Bible, it was from Mount Nebo that Moses contemplated the Promised..

Lot´s Cave
   Lot´s Cave

To the south of the Dead Sea and near the town of Safi there is a steep slope that is the location of a monastery, a Byzantine basilica from the 7th century AD, a reservoir ...

Umm ar-Rasas 
   Umm ar-Rasas 

Umm ar-Rasas is located 30 km southeast of Madaba, which is the capital city of the Madaba Governorate in central Jordan. It was once accessible by branches of...

Cave of the Seven Sleepers
   Cave of the Seven Sleepers

The legend of the ‘seven sleepers’ involves seven Christian boys who were persecuted by the Roman Emperor Trajan, then esc...

King Abdullah I Mosque
   King Abdullah I Mosque 

The blue-domed King Abdullah I Mosque, built in the 1980s by the late King Hussein as a memorial to his grandfather, is open to Non-Muslim visitors. The mosqu...

Al-Salt
   Al-Salt

Al-Salt is a thriving city located in the North West of the capital Amman. Built on three main mountains (the Cadital, Gadaa and Salalem), surrounded by th...

King Hussein Mosque
   King Hussein Mosque

King Hussein Bin Talal Mosque, better known as the King Hussein Mosque, is the largest mosque in Jordan. Not to be confused with the 1924 Grand Al...