7th-century Mosque excavated near Tiberias

ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: One of the World's Oldest Mosques Found in Tiberias, Israel. Beneath the city’s ancient mosque is actually an older one from the seventh century, when Judaism, Christianity and Islam lived side by side (Noa Shpiegl and Nir Hasson, Haaretz).

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