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This tomb, probably from the Byzantine period, is situated outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, to the North of the Damascus Gate, and is believed by many Christians, but specially the Protestants, to be the true burial place of Christ (pbuh). This possibility seems to be indirectly confirmed in the Gospel: "Now [...]

The garden of Gethsemane is one of the sacred places dearest to Christian tradition. The fact that it is still rich today in olive trees hundreds of years old, twisted and gnarled, has confirmed the belief that these may be the very same olive trees that witnessed Jesus' last night before his arrest. The word [...]

The Mount of Olives rises some 100m to the east of the Old City across the Kidron Valley. Green, fertile and nowadays dotted with more churches and shrines than olive trees. Its summit affords a magnificent view of the whole of Jerusalem with the sealed Golden Gate of the Old City and in the other [...]

This church, pleasantly modern in appearance, was constructed in the thirties of last century for the Assumptionist Fathers. It is very probable that the house of the high priest Caiaphas once stood on this site, even if no support for this belief has been found by archaeological explorations, which, however, have revealed the remains of [...]

This church, erected during the first half of the twelfth century, blends admirably traditional Romanesque features and the architectural principles followed at the time of the Crusades. It is numbered among the longest preserved sacred places in the city, since according to tradition it arose over the place where once stood the house of Joachim [...]

The powerful and imposing fortifications of the Citadel, by the Jaffa Church of Dominus Flevit, which is called The Lord Wept, is a Franciscan church built during the thirties of last century by the architect Antonio Barluzzi on the site of the remains of a fifth century building. In recent times the vestiges of a [...]

The powerful and imposing fortifications of the Citadel, by the Jaffa Gate entrance, are crowned by crenellated walls, towers, and the distinctive cylindrical minaret improperly known as the Tower of David (pbuh), which is actually a minaret of a mosque built in the Ottoman period. The Citadel is the result of construction work done at [...]

Dominating the skyline of Jerusalem, a landmark without doubt, is the beautiful shrine of the Dome of the Rock. Built on a platform over the rock of Mt. Moriah more than 1300 years ago by the Muslim Umayyad Caliph AbdulMalek bin Marwan, the shrine was completed in 691 AD, 6 years after building commenced. It [...]

Western Wall or the Wailing Wall (called in Islamic tradition Ha'et El-Buraq and by the Jews Hakotel Hama'aravi) is a focus of Judaism, a symbol of a people and a nation. The massive stretch of wall seen today by visitors and Jewish pilgrims, is believed to be a large segment of the sustaining wall of [...]

5 km southwest of Bethlehem, a turn off to the east on the road to Hebron leads to an Ottoman Fort and a three large water reservoirs, partly excavated from the rock and partly built, which were used to collect spring and rain water from the surrounding valleys to be channeled to Jerusalem, and is [...]