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1.Christian: (label in Blue)

a. The Pool of Siloam, where Jesus ordered a blind man to go to wash mud out of his eyes, lay undiscovered until 2004.

b. Via Dolorosa is the route that Jesus took between his condemnation by Pilate and his crucifixion and burial. There are 14 stations beginning at Lions’ Gate and ending in the Church of the Resurrection at Golgotha and the Tomb.

c. Church of St. Anne marks the traditional site of the home of Jesus’ maternal grandparents, Anne and Joachim, and the birthplace of the Virgin Mary. It has remarkable acoustics.

d. Church of St. Mary Magdalene brings a taste of the Kremlin to Jerusalem. This 19th-century church with its golden domes is an active community of orthodox nuns on the Mount of Olives.

e. Gethsemane and the Church of All Nations is at the foot of the Mount of Olives. The Garden is a grove of very ancient olive trees. The church is built over the rock on which Jesus is believed to have prayed in agony the night before he was crucified.

f. Church of Dominus Flevit (The Lord Wept), Mount of Olives, was built in the 1930s by Antonio Barluzzi on the site of the remains of old Bethany

2.Jewish (label in Green) a. Western (Wailing) Wall of the 2nd Temple, Old City, Jewish

Quarter, is perhaps the holiest site for devout Jews.b. Tower of David is just inside the Jaffa Gate to the Old City of

Jerusalem. It has wonderful dioramas of ancient and biblical times. It is also one of the areas where you can buy a ticket and walk on the old city walls.

c. The Jewish Quarter is located on the remains of the upper city from the Herodian period 37 BC to 70 CE.

d. Tomb of King David, on Mt. Zion, is the traditional site of the “warrior” king of Israel.

3.Muslim (label in Red) a. Al Aqsa is the large mosque on Temple Mount was originally

built in 710 AD. It has 11th-century mosaics, a 12th-century

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mihrab, and Crusader arches. Non-Muslims have not been allowed entrance into Al Aqsa since the 2nd Intifada, 2000.

b. Dome of the Rock (Qubbat as-Sakhrah), which, like the Ka'ba, is built over a sacred stone. This stone is holy to Jews as well, who believe it to be the site at which Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac (Muslims place this event in Mecca). Non-Muslims have not been allowed entrance since the 2nd Intifada, 2000.

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