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"Ten measures of beauty were bestowed upon the world ;
nine were taken by Jerusalem.
and one by the rest of the world."
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Kiddushin 49:2
 
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Map of death

Map of the Armenian Genocide
Found everywhere in the Old City, in particular, the Armenian Quarter

Door

St Mark's Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem
   
   

 
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My proof or yours

Every holy site has a rival site belonging to a different denomination.  The Syrian Orthodox Church maintained that this 6th Century plaque in the ancient Aramaic lanuage was a "certification" from the Byzantine emperor that the St Mark's is the true site of the last supper.
 

Lebanese Memories

The Convent of St Maron
Cedar trees and paintings of St Maron grace this Maronite convent
 

  
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Desert Ascetics & Saints-Martyrs

St Anthony & St Bulla ; St Mark & His Lion
Holy images in the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
 
 
 

 
Holy Places II : Western Wall
 
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