Ancient Mosaic Floor Fragment - Jesus - Capernaum - Apostle Peter's House

Fragment №12

Capernaum (ancient Hebrew כפר נחום‏‎ - Kfar Nahum, other Greek Κεφαρνωκον, lat. Cafarnaum) is an ancient city 

located on the northwestern coast of the Tiberias Sea (now Lake Kinneret), in Galilee, in Israel. 

The city is mentioned in the New Testament. 

Jesus Christ preached in the synagogue of Capernaum and performed many miracles in this city.

Now Capernaum consists of two parts: western and eastern. 

The western part belongs to the Custodia of the Holy Land and contains an archaeological complex 

consisting of the remains of the walls of excavated houses built from local volcanic basalt, 

the White Synagogue and the Catholic Church of St. Peter, built on the supposed site of the house of the Apostle Peter. 

The eastern part of Capernaum belongs to the Jerusalem Orthodox Church and contains the Monastery of the Holy Apostles.

The original name of the settlement - Kfar Nahum means "Village of Nahum". 

In the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, this settlement was called Kafarnaum (Greek: Kαφαρναουμ). 

In the same way it was usually called in Greek and Latin. 

The New Testament used the name Capernaum (Greek: Kαπερναουμ). 

Blessed Theophylact, in his interpretation of the Gospel (Matt. 4:13), 

translates the name as “House of Comfort” (nachum in Hebrew means comforted). 

From the 7th century it became known as Talkhum. 

Subsequently, from the 19th century, the settlement began to be called Tell-Khum - a compound word 

from Tell - "mound" and Hum - a possible designation of the name Naum.