Online Exhibit: One Place, Many Stories | Madaba, Jordan

Madaba, about 30 kilometers southwest of Amman in Jordan, is known as the "City of Mosaics". During the Byzantine and early Islamic periods its churches and houses were decorated with elaborate floor mosaics, many of which survive. The most famous is the Madaba Map in the Church of St. George, a 6th-century mosaic that is one of the oldest surviving maps of the Holy Land and includes a detailed plan of Jerusalem. Today Madaba is a lively town where Muslim and Christian communities live side by side, and its mosaics and archaeological park draw visitors and pilgrims.

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