Mount Carmel is not a single mountain peak, but a long range that extends about thirteen miles eastward from the Mediterranean Sea, just south of the modern city of Haifa. Here Elijah confronted 850 pagan prophets with a test of fire (1 Kings 18). Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea from the porch of the Carmelite Monastery on Mount Sinai, traditional site where Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal.