The Atlas

Dear one, the Atlas is the household's small library of the places where the King James Bible unfolded. It is not a travel website. It is not a Wikipedia clone. It is a quiet door into what the Bible says about a place, what happened there in the early church, and where the household prays with that place today.

Ten places open the Atlas in v1.2. Others will be added slowly over years. Every claim on every page is drawn from public-domain sources. Where a claim is uncertain, we say so.

Ten places, ten doors

ATLAS · JERUSALEM Jerusalem The city on the hill where the King James Bible unfolds from Melchizedek through the Passion and beyond — the mother church of Christianity. ATLAS · BETHLEHEM Bethlehem The small town of the House of Bread — the city of David and the birthplace of Christ. ATLAS · NAZARETH Nazareth The Galilean village where Mary lived, where Joseph worked, and where Christ our Lord grew. ATLAS · DAMASCUS Damascus The oldest continuously inhabited city in the world — the road where Saul became Paul. ATLAS · ANTIOCH Antioch The Syrian city on the Orontes where the disciples were first called Christians. ATLAS · ROME Rome The imperial capital where Paul was tried, where Peter and Paul were martyred, and where the earliest Latin Christian church took root. ATLAS · ALEXANDRIA Alexandria The great Egyptian city on the Mediterranean where the Septuagint was made, and where the earliest schools of Christian learning arose. ATLAS · CORINTH Corinth The Greek city on the isthmus where Paul stayed a year and six months — and to which he wrote the epistles that shaped every later church. ATLAS · EPHESUS Ephesus The great Ionian city where Paul stayed three years, where John the Beloved is buried, and where Mary is honoured. ATLAS · PHILIPPI Philippi The Macedonian colony where the first European convert was baptised, and where Paul and Silas sang at midnight.

How the Atlas works

Every page names one location. It opens with the King James Bible — what the KJV says about the place, and where. It then walks slowly through history: what happened in the early centuries of the church, which historic churches and monasteries stand there today, and which museums keep the archaeology. Every page ends with a small Related reading block that connects the Atlas back into the rest of the household — devotionals, reflections, letters, hymns.

The Atlas is a v1.2 foundation. Its images and maps are not shipped yet — every image slot is a labelled placeholder naming what public-domain image will go there in a future pass. The site never uses AI-generated depictions of biblical events and never uses copyrighted press photography.

What the Atlas is not

The Atlas is not a travel operator. It carries no tour recommendations, no hotel referrals, no booking links. It never will. The Atlas is not a map application; there is no live map, no interactive tile layer, no third-party embed. It is a written household object.

See also: the governance documents that describe how the Atlas is written and how it will grow.