Byzantine Church of Jabalia

The Byzantine Church in the Gaza Strip, which today is the remains of a Christian church, includes graves and mosaic floors surrounded by marble columns on an area of 850 square meters, including 400 meters paved with mosaics. It is more than 1,700 years old, and has lived through 24 Byzantine emperors and 14 Muslim caliphs from the two Abbasid states since its inception. And the Umayyads.