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Page 11
... century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of the chapels of other sects . Hard by is the chapel of the Syrians , or Jacobites , and here a candle is lighted to enable the visitor to see his way through a narrow passage ...
... century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of the chapels of other sects . Hard by is the chapel of the Syrians , or Jacobites , and here a candle is lighted to enable the visitor to see his way through a narrow passage ...
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... century , and only a few courses of its stone belong to the wall of an ancient date . Around the walls are thirty - four towers , and in the walls are seven gates , five open and two closed - the former are the Jaffa 4 [ Jerusalem ...
... century , and only a few courses of its stone belong to the wall of an ancient date . Around the walls are thirty - four towers , and in the walls are seven gates , five open and two closed - the former are the Jaffa 4 [ Jerusalem ...
Page 10
... century by century , pilgrims come to worship ; and no one , be his faith what it may , can witness the scene of passionate excitement , or gaze upon that slab , which has been bathed with myriads of tears and kissed by countless lips ...
... century by century , pilgrims come to worship ; and no one , be his faith what it may , can witness the scene of passionate excitement , or gaze upon that slab , which has been bathed with myriads of tears and kissed by countless lips ...
Page 11
... century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of the chapels of other sects . Hard by is the chapel of the Syrians , or Jacobites , and here a candle is lighted to enable the visitor to see his way through a narrow passage ...
... century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of the chapels of other sects . Hard by is the chapel of the Syrians , or Jacobites , and here a candle is lighted to enable the visitor to see his way through a narrow passage ...
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... century after Christ ; the interior is used as a place of prayer by the Arabs . It is a large vaulted portal ... centuries , no Christian foot has trodden until in quite recent times — a spot which is second to hardly any other spot in ...
... century after Christ ; the interior is used as a place of prayer by the Arabs . It is a large vaulted portal ... centuries , no Christian foot has trodden until in quite recent times — a spot which is second to hardly any other spot in ...
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