Yardenit

Yardenit, Hebrew ירדנית, by transfer from the Hebrew and in the case Yardenit, is a baptismal site on the Jordan River, near the outflow of the Jordan from the Sea of ​​Galilee and the oldest Israeli kibbutz Degania. Yardenit is operated by Kibbutz Kinneret.

The point where the Jordan River leaves the Sea of ​​Galilee, from the earliest times the Christians regarded as a holy place. He was structurally changed from the late 19th century. David Roberts' famous picture from 1839 shows the pilgrims as they appear together in the holy waters of the Jordan. Numerous artists of the 19th century represented this Taufszenen of Yardenit; Photography was invented as a mid-19th century, the site was immediately popular camera object.

Many Christians can be connected to the undeveloped for tourism baptismal site in memory of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist baptized, although the tradition locates the place of this event, further downstream, near Jericho.