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Nazareth is home to dozens of monasteries and churches, many of them in the Old City.
- The Church of the Annunciation is the largest Christian church in the Middle East. In Roman Catholic tradition, it marks the site where the Archangel Gabriel announced the future birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26-31).
- The Church of St. Gabriel is an alternative Eastern Orthodox site for the Annunciation.
- The Synagogue Church is a Melkite Greek Catholic Church at the traditional site of the synagogue where Jesus preached (Luke 4)
- The St. Joseph's Church marks the traditional location for the workshop of Saint Joseph
- The Mensa Christi Church, run by the Franciscan religious order, commemorates the traditional location where Jesus dined with the Apostles after his Resurrection
- The Basilica of Jesus the Adolescent, run by the Salesian religious order, occupies a hill overlooking the city.
- The Church of Christ is an Anglican church in Nazareth.
- The Church of Our Lady of the Fright marks the spot where Mary is said to have seen Jesus being taken to a cliff by the congregation of the synagogue
- The Jesus Trail pilgrimage route connects many of the religious sites in Nazareth on a 60 km walking trail which ends in Capernaum.
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| Politics |
| Balad Hadash United Arab List Avoda · Kadima · Likud Abnaa el-Balad Internally Displaced Palestinians The Koenig Memorandum Land Day October 2000 events |
| Religion |
| Basilica of the Annunciation Dome of the Rock Al-Aqsa Mosque Mary's Well St. George's Orthodox Church Church of the Holy Sepulchre |
| Culture |
| Music · Dance · Cuisine Palestinian Arabic Negev Bedouins |
| Major population centers |
| Nazareth · Umm al-Fahm · Rahat Tayibe · Shefa-'Amr · Baqa-Jatt Shaghur · Tamra · Sakhnin Carmel City · Tira · Arraba |
| Personalities |
| Hiam Abbass · Hany Abu-Assad Mohammed Bakri · Azmi Bishara Emile Habibi · Samih al-Qasim Abbas Suan · Elia Suleiman Hisham Zreiq · Ali Suliman See also Template:Palestinians |
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