Jeursalem is perhaps the most sacred city in the World. It is so very important and significant to the three Abrahamic religions, and has therefore changed hands throughout its 3000 year of history.
In this one hour tour we will visit the four quarters of the city - the Jewish, Christian, Moslem and Armenian quarters. We start the tour starts at Jaffa Gate, enter the city and walk to the Armenian quarter where we see some of the Armenian art shops and visit Saint James Cathedral. Next we’ll visit the Jewish quarter, the Cardo (main street of the Roman and Byzantine eras), the Wide Wall built by King Hezekiah 2700 years ago. From there we will walk through the Moslem quarter to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most sacred site to the Christian world.
Mount Olives is sacred to all three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this tour we will visit Dominus Flevit Church and Gethsemane.
In this one hour virtual tour we will visit some of the churches commemorating events from the New Testament. We start at the spectacular view point from which one can best see the Old City of Jerusalem. I walk alongside the most important Jewish cemetery to the Dominus Flevit Church (the Lord Wept) where Jesus wept for Jerusalem after predicting its destruction. From the church we will continue descending the mountain to Gethsemane where you will be able to see the ancient olive trees and visit the Church of All Nations or Church of Agony, commemorating the last night before Jesus was arrested. Throughout the entire tour we will be able to see in front of us the Old City as we come closer to it, to the Golden Gate of Gate of Mercy through which Jesus entered the Temple Mount.
In this one hour virtual tour in Ein Kerem, we will walk in the footsteps of the forerunner, the Immerser, John the Baptist. Ein Kerem, at the southwestern end of Jerusalem, is the hometown of John.
Two churches commemorate two important events in the life of John, two events that gave rise to two of the known Christian prayers – the Magnificat and the Benedictus. We will visit these two churches, the Church of Visitation, where Mary, carrying Jesus, visited Elizabeth, carrying John, and St. John Ba Harim Church, where John was born and grew up. We will walk through the picturesque alleys of the village that has not changed much during the last 2000 years and attempt to better understand John’s childhood. And in between these two churches we will learn about the Jewish passion, almost an obsession, with purification of that time, of unique individuals that came to live in Ein Kerem following the carisma of John. These include Major General Charles Gordon, the Ratisbonne brothers, two Jews who converted to Christianity and formed the Sisters of Zion Order, Eliszabeth, sister in law of the last Russian Zar, all followed the forerunner’s place of birth and where he grew as a child, some learning about him and others setting up convents and churches.