Jerusalem
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Orthodox monasteries of Jerusalem
Heavy doors close, and the time machine transports us in the blink of an eye from the noisy, vibrant, rampant modern Israel to a completely different reality.
Late nineteenth century. Russia acquires more than forty land plots in Palestine. Some of them are still preserved islands of spiritual calm and purity. We will visit the Gorna Monastery in Ein Karem, the Olive Spaso-Ascension Monastery, the Church of Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives and the Alexandrovsky Compound