The Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth is also known as the “Basilica of the Annunciation”. The Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth is located in northern Israel. According to the Roman Catholic convention the church was constructed in the area where the Annunciation occurred. The Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth is one of the popular tourist attractions in Nazareth. The Greek accepted convention cling to the idea that this event took place while Virgin Mary was fetching water from the well in Nazareth and St. Gabriel’s Church was built on the other side.
Presently The Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth is a two-storey structure constructed over the area of a former Byzantine and Crusader church. Lot of Christians considers that the lower level inside the church encloses the Grotto of the Annunciation - the definite vestiges of the actual childhood abode of Mary.
The Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth draws a number of Catholic, Anglican and Eastern conventional Christian tourists each year.
The first Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, including an altar in the Grotto of the Annunciation, was perhaps constructed in sometime in the middle of 4th century. A greater structure was specially built by Monarch Constantine I. The Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth was discovered around the same period as the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The second church was built subsequent to the Christian invasion of the place in the First Crusade. It was damaged in 1263 A.D.
Sheikh Dhaher el Amer allowed building the fourth church in the year 1730. This building was extended in the year 1877, and then entirely demolished in 1955 to allow building of a new basilica, which was finished in the year 1960s.
In the 1990s there was lot of tension among Christian and Muslim inhabitants of Nazareth in order to construct a mosque in front of The Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth. However the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth is a source of pride for inhabitants of Nazareth despite the religious tensions.
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