josh007

1. The new hotel by the city wall (the hotels by the Jaffa Gate)
2. The Pool of Hezekiah surrounded by buildings. The pool is dry in summer.
3. The Latin Patriarchate buildings, and the Latin Seminar (No. 5)
4. In the background is the Ratisbon Arab Boys School (the King George Street area).
6. Bottom right - the minaret of the mosque adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.


11. Foreground - the bell tower and cupolas of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (No. 13)
8. Top left - The Franciscan monastery and the Church of San Salvador by the city wall.
7. The French Hospital tower.
9. The French Pilgrims House (Notre Dame).
10. The Palestinian-Russian building (the Russian Compound).
12. The Ethiopian Church outside the city wall.
14. St. Paul’s Arab-Protestant Church.
15. The mountain in the background "overlooks" the gravestone of the Prophet Samuel.


20. Damascus Gate (Nablus Gate).
16. A Spanish-Jewish neighborhood.
18. The Dominican Monastery (St. ?tienne).
19. The new Anglican Church building
17. The residence of the Anglican bishop in the olive grove.
21. Jeremiah’s Cave by Golgotha (by the bus station to East Jerusalem).



23. The Austrian Pilgrims’ House.
24. Mt. Scopus (Har Hatzofim) and the road to Nazareth and Damascus.
25. The Ecce Homo Church (the Ecce Homo Arch, the Franciscan Monastery of the Flagellation).
26. The wall of the Antonia Fortress at the northwestern corner of Temple Mount.
27. St. Anne’s Church.
28. St. Stephen’s Gate (Lion’s Gate).


29. The Temple Square (Temple Mount).
30. Viri Galilaei on the Mount of Olives.
32. The Church of Mary Magdalene.
33. The Chapel of The Ascension.
34. The Russian observation point.
35. Dominus Flevit (the Dominus Flevit Church).
36. The Dome of the Rock Mosque.
37. The Pater Noster Church.
39. The Al-Aqsa Mosque.
40. The Western Wall of the Jews.



42. The road to Abu Dis passes through Beit Aniya (Azariyya) and continues on to Jericho.
45. Silwan Village.
46. The Mount of Evil Counsel (High Commissioner’s Palace).
47. A synagogue (the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue).



48. The Mount of Evil Counsel (High Commissioner’s Palace).
49. Another synagogue (the Rabbi Yehuda Hehasid Synagogue).
50. Zion Gate.
51. The City of David.
52. The road to Bethlehem.
53. The Armenian Monastery Church.



54. The Mar Elias Monastery on the road to Bethlehem.
55. The Anglican Church (Church of the Messiah).
56. The German Hospital.
57. The German Colony in Emek Refa’im (Valley of the Ghosts) outside the city wall with the railway station next to it.
58. The Infantry Barracks (the "Kishle" compound).
59. Foreground – the Greek monastery.
60. The Tower of Hippacus.
61. The Citadel of David.
62. Jaffa Gate.

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Livni

amazing how small and neglected the city was back then

SHMUEL

very instructive !
i love u !

SHMUEL

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(Sir Charles Wilson's gravure)

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(taken by J.B. Biever)

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1929 :

(Group of Betar on guard during Tisha Be'av)

josh007

It's just amazing how Jerusalem changed over the years. When was it that they knocked down and expanded the whole area of the Western wall. It used to be like a small ally. And if you look past the old city you can see how barren it used to be as well.

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