St. Joseph's Church is a

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church in the Old City of

Nazareth Nazareth is the largest Cities in Israel, city in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. In its population was . Known as "the Arab capital of Israel", Nazareth serves as a cultural, political, religious, economic and ...

, modern-day

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. It was built in 1914 over the remains of much older churches. It is located close to the Church of the Annunciation. It was built in the

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style.St. Joseph's Church
NazarethInfo.org The church is built on the site of the Church of Nutrition quoted by the pilgrim Arculfe about 670 in "''De locis sanctis''" (II, 26), then a church of the crusaders of the

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, whose vestiges are under the crypt, and a Franciscan church built in the 17th century. This history is described by the Franciscan Quaresmius in his "''Historica, theologica et moralis terrae sanctae elucidatio''", written between 1616 and 1626, but merely affirms the existence ''ab antiquo'' of the tradition of a cult in this place, without giving evidence. Saint_joseph_church

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