The concept of 'Holy Land' extends much wider than the territory of the modern state of Israel. Some of the shrines equally revered by Christians, Muslims and followers of Judaism are located on the territory of neighboring countries. As, for example, the grave of the Old Testament high priest Aaron, one of the main characters of the Exodus from Egypt, whose burial is located on the territory of the Kingdom of Jordan, five kilometers southeast of the ancient Nabatean city of Petra.
Actually, the name of the mountain 'Jabal-Harun' literally means 'Tomb of Aaron'. The contemporaries of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, who lived in the 1st century, were well aware of the fact that the High Priest of the Holy Testament was buried on its top - he notes this fact in his famous work “Antiquities of the Jews”. Excursions to the ancient majestic Petra, located on the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, are very popular nowadays. However, heading there, you should not think that it will turn out at the same time to visit the grave of Aaron. The shrine is located at the top of the mountain, at about 1350 meters above sea level - and only the first part of the way to it can be done by car or horseback. Most of the ascent, one way or another, will have to be overcome on foot. But pilgrims see the point in taking on this work. Aaron, son of Amram Jochebed and brother of Moses, was one of the most prominent figures of the era of the Exodus of the ancient Jews to the Promised Land. Endowed with tremendous spiritual strength from God, he more than once won competitions with Egyptian priests. During one of them, his wand, which became a serpent, consumed the wands of his rivals. Aaron was the high priest who blessed the people, the supreme judge and founder of the only priestly family among the Jews. Of the four sons of Aaron, two survived. He himself lived 123 years, thirty-nine of which - after the Exodus of the Jews from the land of Egypt. After that, in front of his compatriots, he departed into another world, climbing up Mount Or. This is how the already mentioned historian Flavius Josephus describes it in his 'Jewish Antiquities'. “After completing the rite of purification, after mourning for the sister of their commander (Moses), he led his army through the desert and came to a place in Arabia, which the Arabs consider their metropolis and which was formerly called Rekem, and is now called Petra. Where a high mountain surrounds this place, Aaron climbed it, after Moses revealed to him that he would soon die, and in front of everything armies - since the place was precipitous - took off his high priestly clothing. Having passed it on to his son Eliazar, who was supposed to become a high priest by his age, he died in full view of the people. ' Christians have venerated Aaron's burial site since the early centuries. During the Byzantine era, there was a large monastery here, which is referred to in written sources of the 6th century as the 'House of Aaron'. Directly on the site of the grave of the biblical high priest there was a three-nave one-sided basilica of the times of Emperor Justinian the Great, and next to it was a chapel on the pedestal of which was written in Greek 'Aaron'. (Some of these buildings and the inscription have survived to this day.) In the 14th century, the Mamluks rebuilt a Christian temple into a Muslim sanctuary. The adherents of Islam revere Aaron as a prophet and saint, and their tradition also points to this mountain as the place of his death, hence its Arabic name Jabal Harun. It is believed that it was Mount Aaron, 'Mount Hor', that attracted the attention of European travelers to ancient Petra. Indeed, after the expulsion of the crusaders from the Holy Land, the way here for the Europeans was forgotten for six hundred years. Only at the beginning of the 19th century, the Frenchman Jean-Louis Burchardt disguised as an Arab willing to sacrifice goat, entered here accompanied by a Bedouin. Their path to Mount Jabal-Harun lay through the ruins of ancient Petra. However, Burchardt never climbed the mountain. The French researcher tells about his visit to these places in the book 'Travels to Syria and the Holy Land', which was published five years after his death - in 1822. Today, Aaron's grave is open to the public. The tomb will be eagerly opened for pilgrims and tourists - and a stunning view of the surroundings opens from the top of the mountain.
Tomb of Aaron on Mount Jabal HarunTomb of Aaron on Mount Jabal Harun The concept of 'Holy Land' extends much wider than the territory of the modern state of Israel. Some of the shrines equally revered by Christians, Muslims and followers of Judaism are located on the territory of neighboring countries. As, for example, the grave of the Old Testament high priest Aaron, one of the main characters of the Exodus from Egypt, whose burial is located on the territory of the Kingdom of Jordan, five kilometers southeast of the ancient Nabatean city of Petra. Actually, the name of the mountain 'Jabal-Harun' literally means 'Tomb of Aaron'. The contemporaries of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, who lived in the 1st century, were well aware of the fact that the High Priest of the Holy Testament was buried on its top - he notes this fact in his famous work “Antiquities of the Jews”. Excursions to the ancient majestic Petra, located on the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, are very popular nowadays. However, heading there, you should not think that it will turn out at the same time to visit the grave of Aaron. The shrine is located at the top of the mountain, at about 1350 meters above sea level - and only the first part of the way to it can be done by car or horseback. Most of the ascent, one way or another, will have to be overcome on foot. But pilgrims see the point in taking on this work. Aaron, son of Amram Jochebed and brother of Moses, was one of the most prominent figures of the era of the Exodus of the ancient Jews to the Promised Land. Endowed with tremendous spiritual strength from God, he more than once won competitions with Egyptian priests. During one of them, his wand, which became a serpent, consumed the wands of his rivals. Aaron was the high priest who blessed the people, the supreme judge and founder of the only priestly family among the Jews. Of the four sons of Aaron, two survived. He himself lived 123 years, thirty-nine of which - after the Exodus of the Jews from the land of Egypt. After that, in front of his compatriots, he departed into another world, climbing up Mount Or. This is how the already mentioned historian Flavius Josephus describes it in his 'Jewish Antiquities'. “After completing the rite of purification, after mourning for the sister of their commander (Moses), he led his army through the desert and came to a place in Arabia, which the Arabs consider their metropolis and which was formerly called Rekem, and is now called Petra. Where a high mountain surrounds this place, Aaron climbed it, after Moses revealed to him that he would soon die, and in front of everything armies - since the place was precipitous - took off his high priestly clothing. Having passed it on to his son Eliazar, who was supposed to become a high priest by his age, he died in full view of the people. ' Christians have venerated Aaron's burial site since the early centuries. During the Byzantine era, there was a large monastery here, which is referred to in written sources of the 6th century as the 'House of Aaron'. Directly on the site of the grave of the biblical high priest there was a three-nave one-sided basilica of the times of Emperor Justinian the Great, and next to it was a chapel on the pedestal of which was written in Greek 'Aaron'. (Some of these buildings and the inscription have survived to this day.) In the 14th century, the Mamluks rebuilt a Christian temple into a Muslim sanctuary. The adherents of Islam revere Aaron as a prophet and saint, and their tradition also points to this mountain as the place of his death, hence its Arabic name Jabal Harun. It is believed that it was Mount Aaron, 'Mount Hor', that attracted the attention of European travelers to ancient Petra. Indeed, after the expulsion of the crusaders from the Holy Land, the way here for the Europeans was forgotten for six hundred years. Only at the beginning of the 19th century, the Frenchman Jean-Louis Burchardt disguised as an Arab willing to sacrifice goat, entered here accompanied by a Bedouin. Their path to Mount Jabal-Harun lay through the ruins of ancient Petra. However, Burchardt never climbed the mountain. The French researcher tells about his visit to these places in the book 'Travels to Syria and the Holy Land', which was published five years after his death - in 1822. Today, Aaron's grave is open to the public. The tomb will be eagerly opened for pilgrims and tourists - and a stunning view of the surroundings opens from the top of the mountain.Свеча Иерусалима -en
The concept of 'Holy Land' extends much wider than the territory of the modern state of Israel. Some of the shrines equally revered by Christians, Muslims and followers of Judaism are located on the territory of neighboring countries. As, for example, the grave of the Old Testament high priest Aaron, one of the main characters of the Exodus from Egypt, whose burial is located on the territory of the Kingdom of Jordan, five kilometers southeast of the ancient Nabatean city of Petra. Actually, the name of the mountain 'Jabal-Harun' literally means 'Tomb of Aaron'. The contemporaries of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, who lived in the 1st century, were well aware of the fact that the High Priest of the Holy Testament was buried on its top - he notes this fact in his famous work “Antiquities of the Jews”. Excursions to the ancient majestic Petra, located on the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, are very popular nowadays. However, heading there, you should not think that it will turn out at the same time to visit the grave of Aaron. The shrine is located at the top of the mountain, at about 1350 meters above sea level - and only the first part of the way to it can be done by car or horseback. Most of the ascent, one way or another, will have to be overcome on foot. But pilgrims see the point in taking on this work. Aaron, son of Amram Jochebed and brother of Moses, was one of the most prominent figures of the era of the Exodus of the ancient Jews to the Promised Land. Endowed with tremendous spiritual strength from God, he more than once won competitions with Egyptian priests. During one of them, his wand, which became a serpent, consumed the wands of his rivals. Aaron was the high priest who blessed the people, the supreme judge and founder of the only priestly family among the Jews. Of the four sons of Aaron, two survived. He himself lived 123 years, thirty-nine of which - after the Exodus of the Jews from the land of Egypt. After that, in front of his compatriots, he departed into another world, climbing up Mount Or. This is how the already mentioned historian Flavius Josephus describes it in his 'Jewish Antiquities'. “After completing the rite of purification, after mourning for the sister of their commander (Moses), he led his army through the desert and came to a place in Arabia, which the Arabs consider their metropolis and which was formerly called Rekem, and is now called Petra. Where a high mountain surrounds this place, Aaron climbed it, after Moses revealed to him that he would soon die, and in front of everything armies - since the place was precipitous - took off his high priestly clothing. Having passed it on to his son Eliazar, who was supposed to become a high priest by his age, he died in full view of the people. ' Christians have venerated Aaron's burial site since the early centuries. During the Byzantine era, there was a large monastery here, which is referred to in written sources of the 6th century as the 'House of Aaron'. Directly on the site of the grave of the biblical high priest there was a three-nave one-sided basilica of the times of Emperor Justinian the Great, and next to it was a chapel on the pedestal of which was written in Greek 'Aaron'. (Some of these buildings and the inscription have survived to this day.) In the 14th century, the Mamluks rebuilt a Christian temple into a Muslim sanctuary. The adherents of Islam revere Aaron as a prophet and saint, and their tradition also points to this mountain as the place of his death, hence its Arabic name Jabal Harun. It is believed that it was Mount Aaron, 'Mount Hor', that attracted the attention of European travelers to ancient Petra. Indeed, after the expulsion of the crusaders from the Holy Land, the way here for the Europeans was forgotten for six hundred years. Only at the beginning of the 19th century, the Frenchman Jean-Louis Burchardt disguised as an Arab willing to sacrifice goat, entered here accompanied by a Bedouin. Their path to Mount Jabal-Harun lay through the ruins of ancient Petra. However, Burchardt never climbed the mountain. The French researcher tells about his visit to these places in the book 'Travels to Syria and the Holy Land', which was published five years after his death - in 1822. Today, Aaron's grave is open to the public. The tomb will be eagerly opened for pilgrims and tourists - and a stunning view of the surroundings opens from the top of the mountain.
