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    The Austrian Pilgrim Hospice to the Holy Family (German: Österreichisches Pilger-Hospiz zur Heiligen Familie in Jerusalem, Hebrew: ההוספיס האוסטרי של...
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    Ashgate, UK. 2012. Kalian M., Witztum E., "The Management of Pilgrims with Malevolent Behaviour in a Holy Space: A Study of Jerusalem Syndrome" in Lappkari...
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    pilgrims who could not travel to the Holy Land. They include the Heiliges Grab [de] ("Holy Tomb") of Görlitz, constructed between 1481 and 1504, the New...
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    church. Pilgrims and clergy say that the Holy Fire does not burn them. Before the fire is lit, the Patriarch kneels inside the chapel in front of the stone...
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    The Paulus-Haus is a pilgrim hospice in Jerusalem under the care of the German Association of the Holy Land. It is situated on the Nablus Road in the...
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    thousands of pilgrims undertook the pilgrimage to Jerusalem by way of the port at Jaffa. To protect pilgrims from the menace of highway robbers, the Crusaders...
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    its holy soil. The desire to be buried on the Mount of Olives stemmed in part from the Segulaic advantages attributed to the burial, according to various...
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    Russian Compound (category History of the Russian Orthodox Church)
    about the Russian pilgrims in the Holy Land, subsequently built numerous hospices, monasteries and churches to handle the flood, including the monumental...
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    David's Tomb (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    ducats. According to Dominican pilgrim Felix Fabri, in 1429 Mamluk Sultan Barsbay took part of the lower floor of the complex away from the Franciscans and...
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    Order of St. George (Habsburg-Lorraine) (category Orders, decorations, and medals of the Austrian Empire)
    Germany, the Benelux countries and the Orient. Accordingly, the Order has a close relationship with the Austrian Pilgrims Hospice to the Holy Family in Jerusalem...
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    houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, among others. The building was constructed in 1965, funded by the family of David Samuel Gottesman, a Hungarian-Jewish...
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    King David Hotel (category The Leading Hotels of the World)
    Egypt, and another 46% by the Goldschmidt family and other wealthy Cairo Jews. The approximately 4% remaining was paid by the National Bank of Egypt, which...
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    Teddy Stadium (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    been played." Goldblatt, David (23 April 2008). "Football and politics in the Holy City". BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents. Retrieved 28 August 2012. Heller...
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    Shlomo. The main sponsor for construction of the new synagogue was Sir Isaac Wolfson, a Jewish philanthropist from Britain. The Wolfson family consecrated...
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    association with the Austrian Pilgrim Hospice to the Holy Family in Jerusalem, during the late 19th century. Born in Nörsach, Austria, Gatt was ordained...
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    layout. This extension reached the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and continued to Zion Gate. The Byzantine Cardo maintained the colonnaded design of its Roman...
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    Turkish fabric cap – adorning the top. The turban on the left grave has not survived, but testimonies from pilgrims over the past centuries indicate its...
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    Mount Herzl (category Jerusalem in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict)
    Norman. He was the only member of Herzl's family to visit Palestine or to be a Zionist. It is a place for groups and students to gather to hear about Mount...
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    Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Jerusalem. The museum's construction was controversial due to its intrusion into the Mamilla Cemetery, a centuries-old Muslim burial site. The three-acre...
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    Library Building, Family Plaza, International School for Holocaust Studies, Administration and Research Building, Monument to the Jewish Soldiers, Partisans'...
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    Hurva Synagogue (redirect from The Hurva)
    on the 1st Tevet [1866] precisely in time to light the last eight Hanukah candles" and an iron door made under the holy ark for safe-keeping of the candlestick...
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    al-Sultan Monastery adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1884, at the initiative of Emperor Yohannes, the construction of the Kidane Mehret Church...
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    prohibiting visiting the Mount to prevent accidental entrance into and desecration of the Holy of Holies or other sacred, off-limits areas. The Temple Institute...
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    Government House, Jerusalem (category Headquarters of the United Nations)
    his family. The southern facade of the Governor's Palace building is the most impressive of all the building's facades. To an observer looking at the building...
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    synagogue located on the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Hecht synagogue was established by the family of Mayer Jacob "Chic"...
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    The Tisch Family Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem (Hebrew: גן החיות התנ"כי בירושלים על שם משפחת טיש, Arabic: حديقة الحيوان الكتابية في أورشليم القدس), popularly...
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    contribution to Israel. It is also the site of the Indigenous People Embassy in Jerusalem. The museum tells the story of non-Jewish aid to the Jewish people...
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    Burnt House (redirect from The Burnt House)
    adherence to purity laws, glass perfume containers, and an inscribed stone weight linking the house to the Katros family, a priestly family mentioned in the Talmud...
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    collections of the archaeology of the Holy Land, and Jewish art and life, as well as significant and extensive holdings in the fine arts, the latter encompassing...
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    connects foot traffic from the Jaffa Gate to the Street of the Chain and the Chain Gate of the Temple Mount. Though the merchants at the bazaar are predominantly...
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