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Photographed on assignment by @simonnorfolkstudio for the current issue of National Geographic Magazine.

Samaritan Passover. Kiryat Luza is a Samaritan village on Mount Gerizim near Nablus, West Bank. It is the last wholly Samaritan village, half of their population of 802 living there. Until the 1980s, most of the Samaritans resided in Nablus below Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans relocated to Kiryat Luza as a result of violence during the First Intifada. Consequently, all that remains of the Samaritan community in Nablus itself is an abandoned synagogue.

Archaeological excavations at Mount Gerizim indicate that a Samaritan temple was built there in the first half of the 5th century BCE.

On the 7th day of Passover is the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Prayers begin after midnight at the synagogue and at 4am all the men of the community walk up Mt Gerizim to the site they believe of the original Temple (which they believe was NOT in Jerusalem). The Torah is carried and singing and chanting carries on continually through the sunrise as they process around the site

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