The Transfiguration of our Lord and Master occurred on or near Mount Hermon. Though it is not positively known that this mount was the place of the sacred vision witnessed by Peter, James, and John, yet many eminent Bible scholars and commentators, whose judgment is generally accepted, refer to Mount Hermon as the probable site of this remarkable manifestation.
As the exact locality of the Transfiguration, however, is unknown, there is more or less conjecture concerning it.
Mount Hermon is the highest mountain in Syria. It belongs to the Anti-Lebanon range, and is forty miles north of the Sea of Galilee, and thirty west of Damascus. The ruins of an ancient temple are still visible on its southern promontory. This majestic mountain can be seen from all the heights of Palestine. Its summit commands an extensive view of the Damascus Plain on the east, of the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and the Holy Land on the south. At its base lay Cesarea Philippi, a town built by Herodes Philippus, from whom it received its name.
