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2 unusual facts about Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade


Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade is a 2010 book about the Temple Mount edited by Oleg Grabar and Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by the University of Texas Press.

Where Heaven and Earth Meet is the joint product of professors who teach at Al Quds University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Dominican Seminary in Jerusalem.


Abby Leigh

# The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Church of the Apostles

The Church of Zion, Jerusalem, a putative Jewish Christian congregation in the 3rd-5th Centuries and the disputed archeological thesis related to this

Church of Zion

Church of Zion, Jerusalem, a presumed 4th Century Jewish congregation in Jerusalem

Dormition Abbey

During his visit to Jerusalem in 1898 for the dedication of the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, Kaiser Wilhelm II bought this piece of land on Mount Zion for 120,000 German Goldmark from Sultan Abdul Hamid II and presented it to the "German Union of the Holy Land" ("Deutscher Verein vom Heiligen Lande").

German Colony, Jerusalem

Apart from the French author Émile Zola, Czech president Tomas Masaryk, and South African prime minister Jan Smuts, many of the streets are named for Britons: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party MP Josiah Wedgwood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the pro-Zionist British general Wyndham Deedes.

Haseki Sultan Imaret

The villages whose revenues paid for Haseki Sultan Imaret were Bait Dajan, Yazur, Kafr Ana, Ludd, Anaba, and Jib, among others.

History of Jerusalem during the Crusader period

The Church of St. Anne became a madrasa, and other churches were destroyed and their stones used to repair damage from the siege.

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

The Wild Palms is quoted in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film, Breathless ("À bout de souffle"), when Patricia claims to prefer to take "grief rather than nothing"; the same quote is cited in the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Principal Rooney "consoles" Sloan while waiting in front of the school.

Kate Rusby

In the same year her cover of The Kinks' "The Village Green Preservation Society" was used as the theme tune to the BBC One television sitcom Jam & Jerusalem.

Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem

Members of the Lehi and Etzel Jewish underground were tried here, and some were sentenced to death.

Lars Gule

Gule has explained that the DFLP proposed three targets for him: a bomb could be placed either be in a pedestrian underpass in Tel Aviv, in the President Hotel in Jerusalem or outside an apartment complex with gas containers outside in what was called a “bourgeois neighborhood”.

Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem

At the instigation of the representative for the non-Jewish religions in Jerualem Mayor Uri Lupolianski personally promised the provost on 13 April, to take care of the issue.

Since its original beneficiary, the Bishopric of Jerusalem was maintained as a joint venture of the Anglican Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Prussia, a united Protestant Landeskirche of Lutheran and Reformed congregations, until 1886, the Jerusalem Lutheran congregation preserved a right to bury congregants there also after the Jerusalem Bishopric had become a solely Anglican diocese.

So between 1994 and 1998 the administrator of Mount Zion Cemetery appealed several times at Bishop Samir Kafity to convene the board in order to commission a reconstruction of the walls.

Muristan

In the late 1800s, they rebuilt the Crusader church of St. Mary Latina as the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (Erlöserkirche).

Pat, Jerusalem

In 2007, the Max Rayne School, a bilingual Hebrew-Arabic school was founded in Pat, open to all Jewish and Arab children in Jerusalem.

Percival Stacy Waddy

Soon afterwards he was offered a canonry of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, as Archdeacon for Palestine, Syria, and Trans-Jordan then he was in charge of re-organizing the education work of the Anglican Church there.

St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem

The foundation stone was laid by Field Marshal Lord Allenby on 7 May 1927 and the church was opened in 1930 with Ninian Hill as its first minister.

St Anne's Church, Jerusalem

During the Roman Period a pagan shrine to either the Egyptian god Serapis or the Greek god Asclepius, both gods of healing, stood on the grounds next to the two Pools of Bethesda.

In 1856, in gratitude for French support during the Crimean War, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I presented it to Napoleon III.

St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem

St. George's College is located on the grounds.

St. Toros Church

It is located next to the St. James' Cathedral.

Suicide Bridge

The book examines the characters of William Blake's Jerusalem as influenced by their psychogeography.

Warder Cresson

Warder Cresson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1798 - Jerusalem November 6, 1860) was the first U.S. Consul to Jerusalem.


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