Church of Saint John the Baptist, Ein Karem

The Church of Saint John the Baptist is a Catholic church in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, that belongs to the Franciscan order. It was built at the site where Saint John the Baptist is believed to have been born. In 1941–42, Franciscan archaeologists excavated the area west of the church and monastery. Here they discovered habitation remains from the Early Roman period, the presumed lifetime of John and his parents, Zacharia and Elizabeth, as well as two small Christian chapels and wine presses from the Byzantine period. The community living here has been dated by the archaeological findings back to the Roman, Byzantine and Early Muslim periods. F. M. Abel assessed in 1938 that most of the current church structure probably dates back to the 11th century, with the lower courses possibly dating to the Byzantine period (4th-7th century).

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