Wedding Church at Cana

The Wedding Church at Cana or genuinely Wedding Church, additionally Franciscan Wedding Church, is the call given to a non secular constructing of the Catholic Church placed within the critical a part of the town of Kafr Kanna, in the Lower Galilee in northern Israel. It is devoted to weddings. Its name commemorates an occasion from the Christian Gospel of John, referred to as The Wedding at Cana, at some point of which Jesus completed the miracle of turning water into wine. The Church is owned with the aid of the Custody of the Holy Land, a part of the Franciscan order inside the Catholic Church.

The modern church turned into built circa 1881, and extended from 1897-1905, following efforts by using the Franciscans to acquire the site between 1641 and 1879, when acquisition was completed. Twentieth-century archaeological excavations indicated that, before the modern-day church building, the web page housed a Jewish synagogue within the fourth and fifth centuries, and tombs beneath the rule of the Byzantine Empire inside the 5th and 6th centuries.