Christianity and the Holy Land 

The land of Israel was blessed as the cradle of faith within Christian tradition due to the ‘Historia Sacra' events as described in the Christian Holy Scriptures. Events and figures from the Holy Scriptures connect the tidings of Christianity with the Land of Israel. The covenant sealed between God and man reached its peak in the New Testament in the image of Jesus, as it did in the holy figures preceding him - from Abraham to Joseph, husband of Mary (mother of Jesus), and those following him - Peter, Paul & others. Many places were sanctified by way of religious historical memory and later by commemorative, memorial and ritual structures, which became pilgrimage sites.

Another aspect of the Land of Israel as the cradle of Christianity can be seen in Israel as the origin of the first Christian community whose existence is hinted at already in the Holy Scriptures (Acts of the Apostles) and in external Christian