Wedding Church at Cana church. The complete renovation of the church was completed in 1999. Wedding Church at Cana The Wedding Church at Cana () or simply Wedding Church, also Franciscan Wedding Church, is the name given to a religious building of the Catholic Church located in the central part of the town of Kafr Kanna (Cana), in the Lower Galilee in northern Israel. It is dedicated to weddings. Its name commemorates an event from the Christian Gospel of John, known as The Wedding at Cana, during which Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. The Church is owned by the Custody
Cana did not exist. There is a minority view that the gospel was written for a gentile audience, and those who take this view assert that the description in the passage about the marriage at Cana of "six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification" is specifically for a gentile audience, who would not know the topography of the Holy Land. On this hypothesis the name "Cana" might have some purely symbolic significance. There are at least five locations which have been under consideration as the New Testament Cana: The village of Qana, about from Tyre, Lebanon, is