Ruin on the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee. In the place was established a Jewish fishing village of the first up to forth centuries AD. On 1967 the remains of Kursi were discovered accidentally when a road was paved along the eastern bank of the Sea of Galilee.
Excavations revealed the remnants of the largest Byzantine-period monastery in Israel (123 by 145 meters). The monastery and the church inside it were built in the middle of the fifth century AD. and were apparently damaged during the Persian invasion (614 AD). The church was repaired but abandoned in the eighth century and never again used for prayer.

In 1980, a small chapel was discovered with its apse built in a cave. Christian tradition ties this cave with the place the possessed man revealed himself to Jesus and where Jesus cleansed him with the help of the swine.