Layers of the past.

Excavations identify a sacred precinct; its dating and reconstruction are discussed in archaeological scholarship.

John Hyrcanus destroys the sanctuary. Gerizim remains central to Samaritan religious identity.

Coins of Neapolis depict Gerizim and its monuments, preserving evidence of the ancient sacred landscape.

The emperor Zeno builds a church on the summit; literary sources connect its location to an earlier Samaritan place of worship.

The manuscript now catalogued as British Library Or 6461 preserves the Pentateuch and later records of ownership.

A Samaritan neighbourhood develops in Holon, which becomes one of the community’s principal centres.

The community newspaper is established by Benyamim and Yefet Tsedaka.