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Address:4905 5th Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Our Botanical Gardens Expert Says:
Take a spiritual sojourn into the Holy Land at Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh. The botanical garden, housed on the property of southwestern Pennsylvania's oldest Jewish synagogue, is one of three Biblical gardens in North America. It features more than 100 temperate and tropical plants indigenous to ancient Israel; each plant is accompanied by a Biblical verse. The garden is designed as a replica of the Holy Land and features a small desert and the Jordan River, which gurgles through the garden linking the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. The gardens are open June through September.
From Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
Visit the land of the Bible in a setting of a waterfall, a desert, a stream, the Jordan, which meanders through the garden from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea. All plants are labeled with biblical verses accompanying them. The garden features more than 100 temperate and tropical plants in addition to special new program plantings each year. See wheat, barley, millet and many herbs grown by the ancient Israelites along with olives, dates, pomegranates, figs, cedars. Biblical names given to local plants show the affection of each generation for the Bible. A selection of these plants is presented each season.