Shiloh שילה
Israel's first spiritual capital: the Mishkan stood here 369 years until the Ark was captured.
After fourteen years at Gilgal the Mishkan is moved to Shiloh in the territory of Ephraim, where it stands for three hundred and sixty-nine years — longer than either Temple. The structure was unusual: stone walls without a roof, covered by the Mishkan's curtains. The nation came up three times a year; the Land was apportioned here by lot.
Shiloh hosts one of the Tanakh's most human scenes: the childless Chana praying with moving lips and no voice, mistaken by Eli for a drunkard. Her son Shmuel grows up beside the Mishkan and hears the call there.
The end comes quickly. Eli's sons abuse their office, the Ark is carried into battle and captured by the Philistines, both sons fall and Eli dies. Shiloh is destroyed, and centuries later Yirmeyahu still invokes it as a warning.