outside the walled city photo album

OUTSIDE THE WALLED CITY

Jerusalem, IsraelNovember 2008

On the left is the city of David which is outside the Old City walls

The Montefiore Windmill was built by a British philanthropist in the 1860s to provide cheap flour to poor Jews

Residential buildings

A wedding car The “Stop” sign found on the Israeli roads

A model of Jerusalem in the Late Second Temple Period (ca 66 CE) can be found in the Israel Museum

Top left clockwise: the Temple Mount, Herod’s theatre, Herod’s palace with the 3 towers (from right to left: Phasael, Hippicus, & Mariamne), & the Adiabenian Royal Palaces of Queen Helena

The Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum houses the Dead Sea Scrolls & rare ancient manuscripts; the white dome symbolizes the lids of the jars in which the scrolls were found

Found in the grounds of the museum (top right clockwise): a 3rd-century sarcophagus, a 2nd-cnetury marble pedestal, & segments of a water pipe built by Roman military units that carried water from Solomon’s Pools to Jerusalem

A mosaic depicting Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period

This menorah was presented to the Knesset as a gift from the British Labour Party on 15th April 1956 in honour of the celebrations of the 8th Independence Day of the State of Israel

Top: the original Knesset’s entrance gatesLeft: the Knesset

Walking to the Ben Yehuda Pedestrian Mall, we saw the “new” Jerusalem with her modern malls, open-air cafes, & more

After days of looking at rocks & stones, this was quite a lively & colourful treat