The historic church built upon the spot which they embarked, also dedicated to the Virgin, is further identified by the denominative, ‘Al-Adaweya’, the Virgin’s Church of the Ferry’. (In fact, the name of that now modern suburb, Maady, derives from the Arabic word which means ‘the Crossing Point’). The stone steps leading down to the River’s bank, and believed to have been used by the Holy Family, are accessible to pilgrims through the Church courtyard.