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Jerusalem – The Old City
In ancient times, as today, Jerusalem was the center of Jewish religious life. Mary, especially as an adult, may have visited the city at least once a year to pray at the Temple. Today’s pilgrim can visit the Western Wall [Heb., ha-Kotel ha-Ma’aravi], a remnant of the great retaining wall around the Temple Mount platform, which has been a place of Jewish prayer and devotion since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. Visitors can also ascend to the Temple Mount itself (where non-Muslims can only see, but not enter, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.)
The 12th-century Church of St. Anne (Bethesda Pool) enshrines the site that was according to Byzantine tradition the birthplace of the Virgin Mary.
The Via Dolorosa begins near the arch of Ecce Homo in the Muslim Quarter and ends at the Church of Holy Sepulcher in the Christian Quarter. Of the fourteen stations, four are directly or indirectly connected to the Virgin Mary who was present and witnessed the ordeal.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher contains several shrines dedicated to the Virgin Mary, including an image of Mary, Mother of Sorrows (Mater dolorosa).
Jerusalem – Outside the city walls of the Old City
The Cenacle (the “Upper Room”) – a 14th-century hall in a small, two-storey structure within a larger complex of buildings on the summit of Mount Zion – commemorates the place where Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples. It is also associated with an earlier, at least 4th-century tradition that this was the place (or at least the vicinity) where the disciples gathered with the Virgin Mary and others of the community after the death of Jesus (Acts 1:14) – and where they experienced the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4).
Hagia Maria Sion Abbey on Mt. Zion (the Dormition Abbey) was consecrated in 1910. It was built on part of the site of the former Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sion and a later Crusader church, St. Mary of Mount Zion. A shrine in the crypt is dedicated to the Dormition.
The Tomb of the Virgin (Orthodox Church) is located at the foot of the Mount Olives in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, an arm of the Kidron Valley, adjacent to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of All Nations.
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In Christian tradition, the birthplace of St. John the Baptist, and the place where his parents Zachariah and Elizabeth resided . The New Testament tells of Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth while they both were pregnant (Luke 1:39-56). Several sites within the village are associated with that visit.
Mary’s Spring, a spring and fountain at the center of the ancient village. According to one tradition, this was a place where Mary and Elizabeth met, and where Mary drank (consequently the spring became a place of Christian pilgrimage).
Church of the Visitation – traditional site of the home of Mary’s cousin Elizabeth and her husband, Zacharias (the parents of St. John the Baptist).
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera zahigo25@walla.com +972-54-6905522 tel סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered licensed tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.