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    Church of Saint Toros (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին եկեղեցի) is an Armenian Orthodox church in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem. The Church of St. Toros...
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    The Church of Saint Anne (French: Église Sainte-Anne, Latin: Ecclesia S. Anna, Arabic: كنيسة القديسة حنة, Hebrew: כנסיית סנטה אנה) is a French Roman Catholic...
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    Jerusalem with churches and shrines, making it the foremost centre of Christian pilgrimage. Helena is remembered as the patron saint of archaeologists...
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    end. Most of the tunnel is in continuation of the open-air Western Wall and is located under buildings of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem...
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    David Gate"), is one of the seven historic Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. Zion Gate was built in July 1540, west of the location of the medieval gate...
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    Gate of the Serbian Monastery, that was used by the Franciscans while they were building the Church of St Saviour. It was built at the request of the French...
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     'Gate of the Tribes'), also St Stephen's Gate, is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It leads into the Muslim Quarter of the Old...
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    proximity to the site of martyrdom of Saint Stephen, marked since the time of Empress Eudocia by a church and monastery. A 1523 account of a visit to Jerusalem...
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    Via Dolorosa (redirect from Way of Grief)
    Orthodox Monastery of Saint Anthony, which together form the roof structure of the subterranean Chapel of Saint Helena in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre;...
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    do the will of your Father in Heaven." One of the most generous donations came from Pinchas Rosenberg, the Imperial Court tailor of Saint Petersburg....
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    Toros Rasguélénian (12 December 1934 – 29 July 2020), known professionally as R. Toros, was a Syrian-French sculptor. Toros was born in Syria to an Armenian...
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    The Monastery of Saint Saviour (Hebrew: מנזר סן סלוודור) is a Catholic Franciscan monastery located on 1 Saint Francis Street, east of the New Gate in...
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    City of Jerusalem. The convent was built in 1857 by Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne. The site includes the Church of Ecce Homo, also known as the Basilica of Ecce...
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    the southwest corner of the Masjid al-Aqsa compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. This mosque is called al-Buraq Mosque because of a ring that is nailed...
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  • Bezetha (category Ancient history of Jerusalem)
    suburb of Jerusalem, north and north-west of the Temple, built opposite the tower Antonia (now in proximity to the Convent of the Sisters of Zion and...
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    Saint Elizabeth's Parish Church (Spanish: Parroquia de Santa Isabel) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay. The parish was established...
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    somewhat-nearby house near the Church of the Flagellation with Herod Antipas's palace. Yet another tradition claimed that the nearby Church of St Nicodemus (Deir...
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    The Church of the Flagellation is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near...
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  • Thumbnail for Chapel of Simon of Cyrene
    Chapel of Simon of Cyrene is a Catholic chapel belonging to the Franciscans in the Old City of Jerusalem. The place marks the fifth station of Via Dolorosa...
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    Sephardic Synagogues are a complex of four adjoining synagogues located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The four synagogues include...
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    Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (Hebrew: כנסיית הגואל, Arabic: الكنيسة اللوثرية في القدس, German: Erlöserkirche) is the second Protestant church in Jerusalem...
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    باب السلسلة, Bāb as-Silsila) is one of the gates to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was previously known...
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    Christ Church, Jerusalem (Hebrew: כנסיית המשיח), is an Anglican church located inside the Old City of Jerusalem, established in 1849 by the London Society...
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  • Thumbnail for Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross
    The Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross (Hebrew: קפלת ההרשעה וכפיית הצלב) is a Roman Catholic church located within the Franciscan...
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    The Collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor is a medieval church in Toro, province of Zamora, Spain. It is dedicated to Saint Mary the Great (a Marian...
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    The New Church of the Theotokos, or New Church of the Mother of God, was a Byzantine church erected in Jerusalem by Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565)....
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  • Thumbnail for Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Jerusalem
    The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (Hebrew: כנסיית גבירתנו הדואבת), or the Church of Sorrows of Mary also called the Armenian Chapel of Our Lady of the...
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    (Hebrew: בית כנסת הרמב"ן‎) is the second oldest active synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, after only the Karaite Synagogue. It dates back in its current...
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    on Or HaHaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located on the ground floor of a building which also houses the Ohr ha-Chaim...
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  • Thumbnail for Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue
    Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue (category Late modern history of Jerusalem)
    that Czar Nikolai I intended to buy a plot of land near the Western Wall with the intention of building a church and monastery there. The Ruzhiner Rebbe...
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