2. Left, at the Ramparts Walk on top
of the walls built by Suleiman
In the background is the Citadel or
Tower of David
It is part of the 3 towers built by
Herod in 24 BCE for the people
closest to him: his brother Phasael
(top), his wife Mariamne, & his
friend Hippicus
The minaret was built in the 17th
century by the Ottoman Turks
3. From here, one can see a park where in ancient times children were
sacrificed (2 Chron 28:3; Jer 7:31)—Ge-hinnom or “valley of the son of
Hinnom”
4. The Church of the Dormition where the Virgin Mary is thought to fall into
eternal sleep
It was built in the 19th century by the German Catholics of the
Benedictine Order
The area around it is where Mt Zion is located
6. In the compound of Christ Church, part of CMJ or the Church's Ministry
Among Jewish People, a British Christian Zionist organisation of the
Anglican Church founded in the 1840s
7. The Jewish Quarter gives you a different feel—it makes you feel like you
are in an European city
8. Standing beside an unfinished
replica of the candlestick that
was in the Temple (Ex 25:31-40)
Unlike the Temple candlestick,
this is only gold-plated rather
than made of pure gold
9. The Roman Ha-Kardo (Cardo), the The Crusaders used it as the main
north-south axis of the city, is found in market street
the Jewish Quarter
This portion dates to the time of
Emperor Justinian in the 6th century
10. This 6th-century mosaic map of the walled city was found on the floor of
a church in Medeba, Jordan
The Cardo is depicted with two rows of colonnades running the length of
the city from north to south
11. At dusk in the Jewish A delicately-embroidered A dimly lighted corner
shopping alley of the prayer shawl
New Cardo
