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Page 13
... centre of the earth . The rent is covered over with a brass slide and a grating , but when these are pushed aside a cleft is seen about eight inches deep . The chapel adjoining to Golgotha is where Christ is said to have been nailed to ...
... centre of the earth . The rent is covered over with a brass slide and a grating , but when these are pushed aside a cleft is seen about eight inches deep . The chapel adjoining to Golgotha is where Christ is said to have been nailed to ...
Page 14
... centre is the Dome of the Rock ( Kubbet - es - Sakhrâ ) , or Mosque of Omar , a building of exquisite beauty ; and within the enclosure is also the massive Mosque El - Aksa . This area is the most interesting spot in the whole world ...
... centre is the Dome of the Rock ( Kubbet - es - Sakhrâ ) , or Mosque of Omar , a building of exquisite beauty ; and within the enclosure is also the massive Mosque El - Aksa . This area is the most interesting spot in the whole world ...
Page 15
... centre of the Harâm , and approached by a flight of marble steps , is the Dome of the Rock , an octagonal building , each of the eight sides being sixty - eight feet in length , covered with richly - coloured porcelain tiles , in which ...
... centre of the Harâm , and approached by a flight of marble steps , is the Dome of the Rock , an octagonal building , each of the eight sides being sixty - eight feet in length , covered with richly - coloured porcelain tiles , in which ...
Page 2
... centre of the united kingdom of Israel and Judah . There , too , we read of how it was adorned and fortified by Solomon , and the great Temple built on Mount Moriah ; how in Rehoboam's reign it was besieged and plundered by Shishak ...
... centre of the united kingdom of Israel and Judah . There , too , we read of how it was adorned and fortified by Solomon , and the great Temple built on Mount Moriah ; how in Rehoboam's reign it was besieged and plundered by Shishak ...
Page 8
... centre of which stands the Holy Sepulchre itself . The doms , supported by eighteen piers , over which run two rows of arcades , is sixty - five feet in diameter , richly decorated with mosaics , and is open at the top like the Pantheon ...
... centre of which stands the Holy Sepulchre itself . The doms , supported by eighteen piers , over which run two rows of arcades , is sixty - five feet in diameter , richly decorated with mosaics , and is open at the top like the Pantheon ...
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