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.
Tag: David Roberts
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, by David Roberts. London: Published by Day & Son. Cate Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1855.
General view of Nazareth, Northern Israel.
Various views of Nazareth of the 19th and early 20th century. Photographs and illustrations. The Plain of Esdraelon. Mount of Precipitation.
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.
Jerusalem. Absalom’s Pillar in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
The Tomb of Absalom (Hebrew יד אבשלום Yad Avshalom) is an ancient funerary monument in the Kidron Valley near Jerusalem. It dates from the 1st century AD.
Jerusalem. Entrance to the Citadel. The history of the city walls.
Jerusalem. An outline of the history of the city walls. The Entrance to the Citadel.
The Fountain of Job in Gehenna, the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.
A view of a fountain house in Gehenna, the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.
The chapel of St. Helena inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Chapel of St Helena is a 12th-century Armenian church in the lower level of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, built during the Kingdom of 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 Exterior of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
The first and most interesting object within the walls of the Holy City, the spot to which every pilgrim first directs his steps, is the Holy Sepulchre