article_snippet: Bethlehem - Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route .
article_snippet: The alleged birthplace of Jesus:
article_snippet: Positioned in the Palestine occupied West Bank - an area the Foreign Office says is 'currently tense' Six miles south of Jerusalem, on the site Christians have called the birthplace of Jesus since the 2nd century, is the Church of Nativity.
article_snippet: the Church of Nativity, the original basilica  was built in 339 AD, and parts of the original basilica   survive below ground.
article_snippet: A cave, over which the first Church was built, is traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.