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"How it affects one to be cheated in Jerusalem."
Herman Melville, Journal of A Visit to Europe & the Levant, 1857
 
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 Mary in Grief

Station 13 where Jesus was taken down from the Cross 
Just a job

A priest dispensing incense.  Ceremonies or rituals like this go on round the day. 
  
  

 
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 		 Ararat 

Painting owned by the Armenian Orthodox Church.  Historical scene with Mt Ararat in background
 
Armenian dreams 

An Armenian chapel within the Holy Sepuchre 
 

   
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 Unetion

Painting in front of the Stone of Unetion
 
 
 
The Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Church
in the Holy Sepulchre
 
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