Jordan--Mt Nebo

So, I left off, still January on a bus in Jordan. We viewed a church with an ancient mosaic that was a map of the middle east.
 The signs were in Arabic which looked very strange to my eyes.

Most buildings were cement blocks or pured concrete.
The above was a baby store with some kind of stroller or tricycle.
See the Coke.
And a display of the jet.
Interesting entrance to some place up a mountain.  We headed to Mt Nebo.
We headed up and up and up the mountain.

Christians manage or own the site at the top of the mountain that has traditionally has had a church.
With all the earthquakes and pillages and sackings that have gone on in this region over time, the old church is gone, but mosaics are preserved.
There was a tent over the mosaic that is being preserved.
The guide told us that the tent top was like the Bedouins use for their tents.
I don't remember how old this mosaic is.  And as old as everything was there it was hard to wrap my head around the age of things.
This circle is an actual example of the stones that were rolled over the entrance to tombs.
It would show why the women at Christ's tomb needed someone to roll the stone away.
Mt. Nebo was Moses last stand so to speak.  He saw the Promised land from there, but died on the mountain and never entered.
Obviously in Moses day the pollution was not as great and maybe it wasn't the rainy season.
It was sprinkling rain on us and cold. No one knew where Moses died on the mountain and where his final resting place was.
From a distance this looked like a light pole.  But it is a modern cross.
These were covered up at some time because they have images of people and animals.  Some religious leader wanted only patterns.

Like this, so the oldest mosaics were underneath.
Parts of the old building were there.
The church over the old church is More than a tent.  It had stained glass windows.
I think this was a Baptismal font.
A beautiful cross mosaic.
These were designs and I think under them were other mosaics.
Very imaginative patterns.
And the colors were natural stone, not glass.
This describes the whole thing.  Unfortunately, I can't read it.
And camels on the mosaics.
  This is in the church where we celebrated Mass. We were not originally scheduled  for Mass there on Mt Nebo, but one of our party found one the priests who lived there.  Because we had our priest with us we got the okay.


This was a little old chapel off the to the side.
The chalice, look at the chalice in a mosaic form.
It was a very touching place to celebrate Mass.  Where Moses and the Israelites looked over Jordan.