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Entrance to the Church of the Nativity. Why it is so low I do not know.
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Mosaic from an earlier Byzantine church built by Empress Helena.
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Catholic section of the Church of the Nativity.
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Caves used as tombs, supposedly, for the Holy Innocents
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The room where St. Jerome spent 17 years of his life translating Holy Scripture.
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Kind of a cool looking former entrance to St. Jerome's room.
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Church of the Nativity (Greek Orthodox section).
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Mid-range closeup.
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REAL closeup of Greek altar.
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Cool looking -- cloth (not sure what you'd call this).
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The place where Jesus was born.
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Another view of the altar.
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A cave used by shepherds.
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A larger cave used by shepherds. (These are at Shepherd's Field.)
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Right side of the same cave.
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These are tombs.
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Greek Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene.
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Chapel of the Ascension (owned by Muslims and requiring admission).
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Supposedly where Jesus stepped before ascending into heaven. Of dubious veracity.
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Shrine of Pater Noster, supposedly where Jesus taught his disciples to pray. The Our Father is displayed in hundreds of different languages here.
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A few of the languages of the Our Father.
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This is a tomb of some sort, I forget whose, obviously no one important.
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I took a photo of this since I am half Ukrainian.
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem ... that's the Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock right in the center.
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Tombs (shown earlier).
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The Garden of Gethsemane.
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Basilica of Gethsemane. This window is made out of purple alabaster so that it will cast a dark mood on the church.
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The basilica.
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Left-hand mosaic portraying Judas arriving at the garden and giving Jesus a kiss.
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Right-hand mosaic, when Jesus responds to the soldiers (“I am”, etc.)
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A 1,500-2,000 year-old olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Another view of the Garden.
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Ossuaries of the type used in first-century Israel.
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Church of Dominus Flevit (The Lord Wept). Temple Mount can be seen just beyond the chalice and host.
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Panorama view of Jerusalem from Dominus Flevit.
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The apse of the basilica.
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