Our Day In Jerusalem in Photos

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Photos

Dinner Tuesday
There really is a Pappa John's in Jerusalem

The Jerusalem City Walls
A view of the old city of Jerusalem walls from outside the gate

Jaffe Gate
Our entry into the Holy City

Arab Restaurant for lunch
Delicious food, just inside Jaffe Gate

King David's Wall
This is part of the palace of King David

Old City Jerusalem
Parts of the wall

Roman Arches
Constructed after the total destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans

The most Holy Sites on Earth
Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall

Western Wall
Prayers by the devout

IReconstruction
Walls and buildings after the destruction of the Second Temple

Reconstruction
Walls were built again after the destruction of the second temple

Shopping Streets
A myriad of shopping stalls in every direction

Church of the Holy Sepelchere
Built by Constintine's mother Helen this church has the burial place of Jesus, The stone where his body was laid, and a piece of the True Cross. It also houses the area where he was crucified on Golgotha

Burial Stone
This is purported to be the slab of stone upon which the crucified body of Jesus was laid to prepare the body for burial.

Joseph of Arametheia
Joseph was a cousin of Jesus and is said to be the one who took the body off of the cross and laid it in a tomb built for himself. The tomb on the right is said to be where Jesus lay for three days before the resurrection. This is the Armenian belief

Tomb of Jesus
Located just a few feet away from the tomb above Christian believers that this is where Jesus was buried. These conflicting traditions are compounded by the fact that this Church is home to various sects of Christians, Roman Catholic, Armenian, Coptic, and Greek,.

Under the Wall Tour
When King Herod built the second temple he built it upon the back of a city that was already there. Ninety feet below the current street level is the original city level destroyed by Herod. He built arches (this is one) to level the city above so he could construct the Second Temple upon the bones of the First Temple. This is one of those arches.

Cistern
Below the current Western Wall are more construction works done by Herod. Here we have a cistern designed to hold water for a city built in the desert.

The very end of the original Wall
There are only 57 meters of the Western Wall visible today, yet in Herod's day it was much larger,.well over a hundred yards. Here we see the very end of the wall, still under construction. Why did Herod abandon the construction we will never know. This stone is 115 feet below the current street level.

Via Dolorosa
The Way Of The Cross
This is the very road Jesus carried his cross up to Golgotha

Roman Arches
More Roman arches that were built to support the new city above

Lunch
You gotta eat at the Holy Cafe when in Jerusalem...No?
My Beautiful wife of 46 years, Cathy