Mount Zion, Israel Museum and Yad Vashem at Jerusalem

December 16, 2022
001 - IMG_0435 Mount Zion - located south of the Old City of Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter, was the highest point in ancient Jerusalem and was part of the walled upper city in...
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002 - IMG_0437 The Old City is traditionally divided into four uneven quarters: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter. A...
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003 - P1190600 Zion Gate of the Old City
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006 - IMG_0441 Zion Gate, located at the south end of the Old City's Armenian Quarter.
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004 - IMG_0438 Old City's wall...
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005 - IMG_0439 The Old City Jerusalem map
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map-old-city-of-jerusalem The four quarters of the Old City and a fifth area Temple Mount, home of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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061 - P1190637 The Church of the Dormition belongs to the Benedictine Order in Jerusalem, on Mount Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate.
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065 - P1190639 According to local tradition, it was on this spot, near the site of the Last Supper, that the Blessed Virgin Mary died, or at least ended her worldly existence....
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009 - IMG_0442 A walk to the Room of the Last Supper and Tomb of King David...
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011 - P1190608 History of Pentecost - The holiday is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter which is also fifty days after Easter, hence the name.
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012 - P1190610 The Arrival of the Holy Spirit -
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017 - IMG_0448 The building on the left hand side - we went inside to go upstairs and walked over an outside hallway to the building in the middle of the picture to the Room...
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019 - IMG_0451 Room of the Last Supper - A hall built in the Middle Ages at the place where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus partook of the Passover eve meal with his...
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018 - P1190616 The Cenacle (from the Latin cenaculum,
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021 - IMG_0452 An upstairs outdoor pathway leading to the upper room, the Cenacle - room of the Last Supper...
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