Jerusalem Things to Do Tips by Carmela71

Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Inside

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (fot the Greek Orthodox it is called Church of the Resurrection) is the most sacred place for the Christians.

Here are the last five Stations of the Cross and also they say that here was Jesus crucified, burial and also resurrected

You may find many people outside offering to be your guides. As there are not many tourist around in Jerusalem, and the ones that come to visit it, come in organised excursions, they can be a little more pushing than before in order to get any clients.

Remember that in all the religious places you need to have covered your arms and legs, specially if you are women... (well seems men legs are not so dangerous lol)

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Church of Holy Sepulcher: Main Entrance

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Entrance

this is the main entrance when you enter through the Christian quarter. (By the way the shops close to it, will try to sell you candles, as soon as they see you are a tourist going there, and as I said before as there is not many tourist, they can be very insistent).

There are 5 Christian communities that share the Church having each one its own part: the Roman Catholic, the Greek Orthodox, the Armenian, the Coptic and the Syrian Orthodox.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Holy Sepulcre

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Inside the cript

Well even if it is not the original, this was constructed as it used to be the original tomb of Jesus.

You will find penitents (and tourist) waiting to enter. I was the first one to enter, when I saw a women inside cleaning the tomb and crying very affectionate (It was a little scary)

Whether this is or not the original place, we will leave it to the experts, But I am sure it is difficult to mark after so long and so little information.

By the way I do not like photos inside churches, as I found it very inadequate for the practises, but as I also founded very tourist orientated, and they were complaining about Tal dressed (well a 14 years old, should not be treated like that, the clothes do not make you better person), I did not complain when Stace took the photo.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: The bell tower

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Bell tower

Looking at the left, when you go out of the main entrance, you can find the bell tower of the church.

Outside you will find many guides offering their services to guide you through the church. You can see easily that Jerusalem have lived better days. As a person that lives in a tourist city, and that most of the outcomes come from tourist is very sad to see Jerusalem as it is now.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Dome of the Rotunda

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Dome of Rotonda

View looking up at the dome over the tomb of Jesus.

We got to the church walking through the Jaffa Gate and the Christian quarter (visiting on our way the Western Wall). I was not able to difference the Armenian and Christian quarters during our walk through the Zoco.

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Temple Mount: The Temple Mount

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See both

This is a Holy place of two religions: Muslims and Jews.

It is one of the most important symbols of Jerusalem and one of the most controversial as well.

Jews think that here is where supposedly Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac and where the First and Second Temples were built.

And Muslims have here their third holiest shrine.

The two monuments here are the: Dome of the Rock and the El-Aqsa Mosque

I am afraid I did not enter to the Muslim area, so I could not see them.

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Temple Mount: The Dome of the Rock

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See the dome at the back of the

wall?

You can see over the Western Wall the Golden Dome, another of Jerusalem's most famous symbols.

It was built in the 7th century on the site of the destroyed Jewish Temple and it is one of the oldest and most beautiful examples of Muslim architecture.

We did not visit the Muslim quarter, but in only a day you do not have time enough to visit the whole city and its beauties.

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The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): The Kotel: The Western Wall

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Jerusalem The Wailing Wall (Western Wall)

Women section

This is the remain of the outer wall of the Second Temple's courtyard.

Jews from all over the world for centuries come here to pray and mourn as well as to tuck their written pleas and prayers into its crevices. (Or order them via email or fax!)

You need to cover yourself here as well.

The wall is a part of the Temple Mount built by Herod the Great

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The Citadel (Tower of David): Tower of David

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tower of David from Yaffa Gate

The Museum of the history of Jerusalem is here in the Citadel

Goes through Jerusalem history.

See the building from outside Jaffa gate, sorry we did not have time to visit the Museum but the parking was so close that we could manage to see from outside

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The Quarters: Old City of Jerusalem

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