Jerusalem of the earth, Jerusalem of the heavens

We will start a walk on the observation deck at the famous mill in Yamin Moshe - the first quarter outside the walls of the Old City, built in the XIX century with the money of the legendary philanthropist Moses Montefiore. We will walk through the cozy streets with tiled roofs and Mediterranean greenery and look into the ravine of Ben-Gihin – the same “firefire hell” where once the Eucuseans sacrificed to Moloch and from where, according to legend, the road to hell begins.

Next we are waiting for Kfar David - a calm and respectable district of the local rich. Its architecture is inspired by images of Heavenly Jerusalem: perfect shapes of houses, huge arches overhead and ever-blooming pomegranates with oranges.

To the Jaffa Gate we will go through the busy Mamilla Street - with cafes, food smells and sculptures of biblical heroes. The old city begins with the courtyard of the New Imperial Hotel, where there is an ancient Roman column dedicated to the veteran of the X Legion - the one who destroyed Jerusalem in the first century.

On the Chapel Street we will get to the Christian quarter and look into the Greek church of John the Forerunner of Byzantine times. Here are the relics of the saints, bright frescoes with Salome's dance and, yes, the severed head on a silver platter is also in place. In Muristan, we will rest by the fountain and climb the bell tower of the Lutheran Church of the Savior - in clear weather, you can even see the Dead Sea from here.

Then there is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher: Golgotha, the Stone of the Anointing, the Sepulchre, the Chapel of Adam, the Syrian-Jacobite church with the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea and the famous “Nep of the Earth”, to which tourists are drawn for happiness. Let’s look at the Catholic limit to the Franciscans and the Armenian church of St. Helena, where the walls are literally strewn with crosses of the Crusaders.

Through the Ethiopian church of Archangel Michael, we will go to the roof of the Temple - there is an Ethiopian community that has built a whole "village" of clay for more than two hundred years. Then look at the underground lake under the Coptic church - an ancient reservoir, where, according to legend, Queen Helena bathed.

We will continue our tour of the Via Dolorosa – from the place of Jesus’ trial to the Temple. We will go to the church of meeting with the mother, to the Austrian hospice of Mark Twain, to the House of Anna and Joachim, wander by the pool of Bethesda and through the Arab quarter we will go to the Western Wall.

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