Muhrakah
OPENING HOURS
Summer
Apri-September
Winter
October-March
8am-12.30pm
2.30pm-5.00pm
Sun closed
Tel: (058)779686
8am-12.30pm
2.30pm-5.00pm
Sun closed

Muhrakah means the sacrifice this is the traditional site where the prophet Elijah chalenged the 450 propeths of Baal.

Inside the Carmalite monastery the altar of the church made of 12 stones symolic to elijah's altar.

Tablet statue at the entrance to the Carmelite monestary (built 1868) showing Elijah's victory of the prophets of Baal.

Splendid view of the Jezreel valley, and the kishon brook "the winding green cource".

Bible refrence
1 Kings 18:20-46 Elijah's contest with the 450 phrophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:40 Elijah slaughtering the prophets of Baal at the Kishon brook.