Floor plan and interior of the cave,
with stair and altar on the right
![]() View of the cave entrance |
![]() View of Temple site entrance (looking westward out the front entrance toward the more modern chapel built near the top of the winding stairs) |
![]() Waterworks and steps cut into the rock slope |
![]() Stairs at Wadi Essene Well |
![]() Stairs at the ancient Nazorean Monastic complex at Wadi Essiah |
![]() The graves of an elderly man and one with an older man and young woman were found carved into the rock at the entrance to the Temple site. |
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![]() Restored Entrance to the medieval oratory constructed over the still older (Essene Temple) site. |
View eastward over the central courtyard between western
Assembly Hall and Temple site
View of building ruins south of the
Temple site
![]() Another view of Temple site toward the northwest entrance |
![]() View from the Bethlehem Cave westward toward the entrance |
View eastward up Essene canyon toward the monastery
site
Wadi Es-Siah (Essene Canyon), with encroaching modern
buildings
Flowers on Carmel
Pottery fragments found at the ancient Essene Monastery site
The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel
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