The Franciscan Convent of the Terra Santa had been originally built in 1620, on the site of a Church of remote antiquity.
The Franciscan Convent of the Terra Santa, Nazareth.
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Mount Tabor, the mountain of the world in Galilee in northern Israel.
Tabor is a beautiful mountain, wholly of limestone, and rising about a thousand feet above the great Plain of Esdraelon.
Calvary, or Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
A view of the Calvary Altar in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, within the Christian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem.
The Stone of Unction in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The Stone of Unction, also known as the Stone of Anointing in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem 1839
The Church of the Purification at Jerusalem. The Holy Land 1839.
The Church of the Purification is, in fact, not represented in this westward view of the Jerusalem landscape.
Historical views of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.
The view is extensive beyond the city, commanding the plain of Jericho, and, on the east, the valley of the Jordan, and a portion of the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem from the South. The city’s various conquests.
No other city on earth has ever experienced such a constant and terrible succession of sufferings as Jerusalem with its numerous conquests.
The Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, by David Roberts.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem stands on the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. The church is one of the largest shrines of Christianity and is today a simultaneous church of different denominations.
The Pool of Bethesda, or Probatic Pool at Jerusalem.
The pool of Bethesda, located in Jerusalem, is the name of a cistern that was also said to have healing powers.
Bethany. The Sepulchre of Lazarus at Palestine.
Bethany is a locality in Judea, currently part of the West Bank, on the east side of the Mount of Olives, about 2.7 km southeast from Jerusalem, on the road… Read More