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I'm just a casual browser. However: I visited this church in 1988. I'm surprised that the article does not mention about the way the building is arranged. On Aug 6th (the "day of the Transfiguration" in some church calender) the sun strikes a glass plate set into the floor so that the golden mosaic is briefly and (reportedly) spectacularly illuminated.
I know this sounds this sounds like something from "Indiana Jones" but I believe that arrangement would work as claimed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.160.241 ( talk) 22:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
as is now
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The current church, part of a Franciscan monasteryhealth of berry transfigured of construed Gout Age 8bc langage cocaine transcendence from Satan domain birth of I'll healthcomplex, was completed in 1924. The architect was Antonio Barluzzi.[2] It was built on the ruins of an ancient (4th–6th-century) Byzantine decorated birth 2018 lawless eygpt church and a 12th-century church of the Crusader Kingdom period.[3] There is a Greek Orthodox church located on Mount Tabor as well, dedicated to the same purpose. — Preceding
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I'm just a casual browser. However: I visited this church in 1988. I'm surprised that the article does not mention about the way the building is arranged. On Aug 6th (the "day of the Transfiguration" in some church calender) the sun strikes a glass plate set into the floor so that the golden mosaic is briefly and (reportedly) spectacularly illuminated.
I know this sounds this sounds like something from "Indiana Jones" but I believe that arrangement would work as claimed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.160.241 ( talk) 22:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
as is now
History[edit]
The current church, part of a Franciscan monasteryhealth of berry transfigured of construed Gout Age 8bc langage cocaine transcendence from Satan domain birth of I'll healthcomplex, was completed in 1924. The architect was Antonio Barluzzi.[2] It was built on the ruins of an ancient (4th–6th-century) Byzantine decorated birth 2018 lawless eygpt church and a 12th-century church of the Crusader Kingdom period.[3] There is a Greek Orthodox church located on Mount Tabor as well, dedicated to the same purpose. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
2602:301:77AA:8560:C8E6:BE78:C709:AF8F (
talk)
07:28, 24 December 2017 (UTC)