city
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
31.778, 35.236
Attested. The city's role is documented; details of the first-century church come largely from Acts and later writers.
Center of the earliest Jesus movement in Judea and the setting of the meeting described in Acts 15. The city was destroyed in the revolt of 66–70 and refounded as Aelia Capitolina in the second century.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
30. The Jerusalem community after Pentecost (Acts 2).
Acts 2:5 (BSB) · Verified in the source note
36. Paul visits Jerusalem and meets Cephas and James, 'the Lord's brother'.
Galatians 1:18-19 (BSB) · Verified in the source note
Further reading
Councils here
- Jerusalem meeting (about 48–50)