Features
- Search every record by its Spanish name; accents and case are ignored ("jerusalen" finds Jerusalén).
- Read one record in full: family and relations in both directions, offices, coordinates and candidate sites, what happened at a place.
- List events by year or range, person, place, role, kind or Bible book, in date or story order.
- Ask who was alive, ruling or active in a year, with the evidence for each person.
- Look up a Bible reference ("Hch 16:1", "Hch 16", "Rut") and get the events, people, places and records that cite it.
- Find the shortest chain of family ties, succession and companionship between two people.
- Find places within a radius of a place or a coordinate.
- Years are signed in both directions: -607 means 607 a.e.c.
- No database and no atlas data in the package: the server downloads the atlas's public data file, caches it and refreshes it hourly with a conditional request.
Quick start
With Node.js 18 or newer, add the server to Claude Code with claude mcp add biblical-atlas -- npx -y biblical-atlas-mcp, or to any client that starts stdio servers:
{
"mcpServers": {
"biblical-atlas": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "biblical-atlas-mcp"] }
}
}
Then ask "who was alive in 607 a.e.c.?"; the container image for HTTP clients, release binaries and every setting are in Getting started.
Documentation
- Getting started: every install path and a first call
- Configuration: every variable, flag and client config
- Usage: the nine tools, their parameters and what they return
- How it works: download, cache, refresh and offline use
- Development: build, test and release
Related projects
The data belongs to biblical-atlas, the atlas this server reads. It stays on the atlas site with its sources; this server only fetches and indexes it. Other MCP servers in the family: telegram-archive-mcp.