Jerusalem environs:
"Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors:
and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is the King of glory:
even the Lord of hosts,
he is the King of Glory." Ps.24.9-10.
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Via Dolorosa | Jerusalem at the time of
Jesus: north |
west |
south |
the Temple.
JERUSALEM TODAY: 1. Western
City wall | 2. Jerusalem: Old City - overview from the west |
3.Ophel
- City of David from the south.
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Jerusalem environs: |
"Lift up your heads, O ye gates, |
KEY: 1.Site of the Antonia Fortress | 2.Dome of
the Rock | 3.Site of the Pool of Bethesda (next to St Anne's church) | 4.Gethsemane
| 5. Modern road to Jericho | 6.Ancient road to Jericho | 7.Dominus Flevit
| 8.Bethphage | 9.Traditional scene of the ascension | 10.German hospital |
11.Bahurim | 12.Anathoth | 13.cupola of the Holy Sepulchre| 14.Citadel of David
| 15.Church of the Domition | 16.Wailing Wall | 17.Salvatore monastery | 18.Jaffa
Gate | 19.Site of the Palace of Herod | 20.Ophel 'Millo' | 21.Dung Gate | 22.Robinson's
Arch | 23.Lion Gate | 24.Golden Gate | 25.Herod's Gate | 26.Damascus Gate |
27.El-Aqsa Mosque | 28.Zion Gate | 29.Rockefeller Museum | 30.Gihon spring
| 31.Pool of Siloam | 32.St Peter in Gallicantu | 33.Dung Gate | 34.Hulda gates.
The Via Dolorosa
(indicated in red) -
the way of the Passion -
leads from site of the Antonia
fortress (1),
to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (13).
ILLUSTRATIONS adapted as follows:
1, 3. 'Chronicles of the Bible Lands' by John Rogerson,
Angus Books Ltd 2003 - pages 172-4.
2. 'New Bible Atlas' ed: J J Bimson, J P Kane, J H Paterson, D J Wiseman, IVP
1985 - page106.