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Title: Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, Albert, 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Palestine -- Guidebooks Syria -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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h of tlie Sepulchre(p. 43). Tlie Fourteenth and Last Station is by the Holy Sepulchreitself (p. 40). e. The Haram esh-Sherif (Place of the Temple). For a Visit to the Ilaram eali-Slierif the permissiim of the Turkishauthorities and the esciyt of a soldier arc, necessary. Both these are ob-tained through the travellers consul, and the kavass of the consulatealso joins the party as a rule. Each member of a party pays 5 fr. to thekavass (a sinttle visitor 10 fr.), who is then responsiljle for iill expense.?(fees, tips, etc.). — On Friday and during the time of the Nebi-Musafestival (i.e. Easter Week) entrance is entirely pr(ihibited to strani^ers. literature: Vogiie, Le Temple de Jerusalem, Paris 1864. Schick, ^Beitel-Makdas\ Jerusalem 1887; Die Stiftshiitte, der Tenijiel in .Terasalem, undder Tempelplatz der .letztzeit\ Berlin 1895. Chipiez e( Perrot, Le Templede Jerusalem, Paris 1889. — The large Model of the Haram esh-Slieiif byDr. Schick (at Mrs. Schoenekes) is well worth seeing.
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e. The JJaram esh-Sheuf. JERUSALEM. 4. Route. 51 The ancient site of the Temple, now called the Haram esh-Sherif (PI. G-I, 4-6) or chief sanctuary, is the most interesting-part of Jerusalem, It is surrounded by walls, with a few houses onthe N. and W., and is occupied by numerous buildings. This areahas been a place of religious sanctity from time immemorial. HereDavid erected an altar (2 Sam. sxrv. 25). This was also the siteselected by Solomon for the erection of his palace and the Temple,which, to judge from the formation of the ground, must have occupiedpretty much the same site as the present Dome of the Rock (comp.p. 31). The tenacity with which religious traditions have clung tospecial spots iu the East, defying all the vicissitudes of creeds downto the present day, also confirms this view. The sacred rock probablybore the altar of burnt offerings (p. 56), while the Temple itself stoodto the W. of it. Solomons Temple consisted of the sanctuary andthe holy of holies, the latter

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