Mount Carmel

Mount Carmel is a mountain in northern Israel. The mountain is a north-west branch from the Samaria Mountains to Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea. The city of Haifa is located at the base of the mountain and the connection to the sea. The mountain is 546 metres (1,791 ft) above sea level. The Bahá'í World Centre is located on Mount Carmel. The Carmelit funicular metro and the Cable cars in Haifa, provide public transport between the mountain base and the mountain top.

the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa
Elevation	546 m (1,791 ft)
Location
Location	Haifa

The name in Hebrew is <span title=" transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Har HaKarmel (Hebrew: הַר הַכַּרְמֶל‎‎), which means "God's vineyard". In Arabic it is Arabic: الكرمل, <span title=" transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Kurmul or <span title=" transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">جبل مار إلياس <span title=" transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Jabal Mar Elyas, "Mount Saint Elias".

Mount Carmel Media

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  A view of Mount Carmel in 1894.

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  Coloured postcard of "Haifa, Mount Carmel", by Karimeh Abbud, c. 1925

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  Distribution of the Neanderthal, and main sites, including Tabun cave, 500,000 to around 40,000 BP

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  University of Haifa atop Mount Carmel

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  Promontory and convent of Mount Carmel

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  Stella Maris Monastery in Mount Carmel, Haifa

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  According to Carmelite tradition, the crypt of the Stella Maris Monastery, seen here on a 1913 photo, was originally the hiding cave of Elijah

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  El-Mohraka, in the 1850s, as depicted by van de Velde

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  The Shrine of the Báb and its Terraces on Mount Carmel, 2004.

Other websites

• Mount Carmel - BiblePlaces.com Archived 2012-07-05 at the Wayback Machine, pictures and text illuminating the biblical site