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Jerusalem in the middle of the mountains
of Judea in the 11th century AD.
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Originally built as a small fortress,
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Jerusalem became an important place
for the monotheistic religions:
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Their holy sites lie within
the fortress walls of the Old City.
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For Christians, this place is
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher:
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built on the site where, according
to tradition, the tomb of Jesus was.
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For the Jews it is the Wailing Wall:
originally built
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as the outer wall of a plateau
on which the Jewish temple once stood.
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Today, the Islamic Dome of the Rock
is located here.
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The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount
is the place of worship of the Muslims.
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In almost no other city is religion
as present as in Jerusalem.
