Tomb of Maimonides

According to Jewish way of life, the Tomb of Maimonides is in valuable Tiberias, at the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Maimonides died in Fustat, Egypt on 12 December 1204, where it's miles believed that he become briefly buried earlier than being reinterred in Tiberias. The Tomb of Maimonides is one of the most vital Jewish pilgrimage websites in Israel, and one among Tiberias's most visited traveler points of interest.

The area of the tomb of Maimonides is also the burial vicinity of Rabbis Isaiah Horowitz and Yochanan ben Zakai. Many legends are told approximately the burial of Maimonides. According to Jewish culture, his bones were placed for a week in a small shrine where he used to study and to heal strangers. While a few consider his bones never left Egypt, others agree with that the everlasting vicinity of his burial changed into on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in which Tiberias is now sited.