4508. JERUSALEM – THE JAFFO GATE, CERAMIC STREET SIGNS ON THE GATE FROM OTTOMAN THROUGH THE BRITISH MANDATE TO MODERN ISRAEL

4511. JERUSALEM – THE JEWISH QUARTER INSIDE THE CITY WALLS. IT WAS REBUILT AFTER BEING DESTROYED IN THE 1948 WAR FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF ISRAEL. THE ARC IN THE CENTER ARE THE REMAINS OF THE GREAT ‘HURVAH’ SYNAGOGUE

4511. JERUSALEM – THE JEWISH QUARTER INSIDE THE CITY WALLS. IT WAS REBUILT AFTER BEING DESTROYED IN THE 1948 WAR FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF ISRAEL. THE ARC IN THE CENTER ARE THE REMAINS OF THE GREAT ‘HURVAH’ SYNAGOGUE

5155. DOME OF THE ROCK, THE MOSQUE OF OMAR, THE ROCK ARROUND WHICH THE MOSQUE IS BUILT. ACCORDING TO TRADITIONAL BELIEF, IT IS THE ROCK ON WHICH ABRAHAM BUILT AN ALTAR TO SACRIFICE HIS SON ISAAC. UPON THIS ROCK WERE BUILT SOLOMON’S AND HEROD’S TEMPLES ON THE ‘TEMOLE MOUNT’.

5311. Map showing the Jewish Holy Places, sites of annual pilgrimages in Jerusalem, Nablus, Hebron, Tiberias and Safed. The map was drawn by the Jewish traveler R. Shlomo Haim Pini from Safed.

5456. Jerusalem street scene near the Mosque of Omar in the Old City.

5484. Ottoman period Sebil in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem. Many of the decorations are second use crusader elements.water cistern

957. JERUSALEM, THE LION’S GATE, EASTERN ENTRANCE TO THE CITY, IT WAS BUILT BY SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT IN 1536

957. JERUSALEM, THE LION’S GATE, EASTERN ENTRANCE TO THE CITY, IT WAS BUILT BY SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT IN 1536

959. JERUSALEM – THE ZION GATE, SOUTHERN ENTRANCE TO THE CITY FROM MT. ZION. THE GATE WAS DAMAGED IN THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

960. JERUSALEM – THE NEW GATE, IT WAS BUILT IN 1889 TO CREATE AN EASIER APPROACH TO THE CHRISTIAN QUARTER

961. JERUSALEM – HEROD’S GATE, ONE OF THE GATES ORIGINALY BUILT BY SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT IN 1536, AS A NORTHERN ENTRANCE TO THE CITY

962. JERUSALEM – THE DUNG GATE, SOUTHERN APPROACH TO THE CITY NAMED AFTER A GATE THAT IN THIS PLACE AT THE FIRST TEMPLE PERIOD, THROUGH WHICH THE REFUSE WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CITY