Visit to the Bulgarian Patriarch Daniel in the Church of “St. George the Victorious” in the city of Madabatranslated

With special solemnity, music and chants, His Highness the Bulgarian Patriarch Daniel was honored in the city of Madaba, known from the Old Testament cato “Medeva” (Joshua 13:9). The Church's delegation was not supported by Negovo, His Eminence Patriarch Theophilus III of Jerusalem, and Negovo, His Eminence Archbishop Christopher of Kyriakopolis.

In the church there is a mosaic map of Madaba, built in the second half in the 6th century, around 565, which is part of the Byzantine decoration of the church in ancient Medeva (Madaba). Mozaikata representing the nay-stara, a geographical map of the Sveti Zemi, is located in the center of Jerusalem.

The top of the river represents towns, villages, rivers and places from Palestine, lands from Jordan, Egypt and Southern Syria, indicated by the inscriptions. Particularly valuable is the detailed plan for Jerusalem from the Byzantine era, which distinguishes between the city walls, streets and important Christian churches.

The trace of the mosaic was destroyed, the mosaic was reopened in 1884, and the Orthodox community prepared to build the present-day church “St. George”; Much of the cartata is ruined, but it becomes infected...