Research Catalog

Title

Jerusalem, the holy city / Colonel Sir Charles W. Wilson ; introduction by Zev Vilnay.

Author

Wilson, Charles William, Sir, 1836-1905

Publication

Israel : Ariel, 1975.

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Details

Description

120 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Series Statement

Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt ; 1

Uniform Title

Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt ; 1.

Subject

• Antiquities
• Jerusalem
• Jerusalem > Antiquities
• Middle East > Jerusalem
• Jerusalem
• Jerusalem (Israel) > History

Note

• Originally published as part of the 1880 ed. of Picturesque Palestine.

Contents

• I. Engravings on steel -- Jerusalem, from Scopus -- Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives -- Bethany -- The Mount of Olives from Mount Zion -- II. Engravings on wood -- The Jaffa Gate -- Entrance to the Citadel -- The Tower of David -- Phasaelus -- The Mount of Olives -- The southern slopes of Olivet and the mountains of Moab -- The Zion Gate, or Gate of the Prophet David -- The Tomb of David -- Hezekiah's Pool, from the south side -- Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre -- The Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre -- The Chapel of Helena, Church of the Holy Sepulchre -- The Chapel in the Cave of the Cross -- Pilgrims of the Greek church buying candles -- Via Dolorosa -- The Ecce Homo Arch -- House of Saint Veronica, in the Via Dolorosa -- The houses of the rich and poor man, Dives and Lazarus -- A shoemaker's shop, Jerusalem -- Masjed el Majahidin -- Mosque of the Knights of the Crescent -- A grocer's shop, Jerusalem -- A street cafe, Jerusalem -- Entrance to the Hospice of St. john and Minaret of Omar -- Staircase leading to the Church of St. John -- The Street of the Damascus Gate -- The Damascus Gate -- Bab el Amud (Gate of the Column) -- The wailing-place of the Jews -- A Jewish cotton-cleaner -- Street of the Gate of the Chain -- Fountain of the Gate of the Chain -- Bab es Silsileh -- The Summer Pulpit, platform of the Dome of the Rock -- North-west corner of the Haram esh Sherif -- Fountain of Kait Bey in the Haram esh Sherif -- Old cypress trees in the Haram esh Sherif -- Interior of the Dome of the Rock -- The cave under the Great Rock on Mount Moriah
• The facade of the Mosque el Aksa, Jerusalem -- The platform of the Dome of the Rock -- Birket Israil -- The Pool of Bethesda -- Mount Scopus from St. Stephen's Gate -- In the Mohammedan Cemetery, Jerusalem -- Khan ez Zeit, the great bazaar of the oil merchants -- Robinson's Arch, Jerusalem -- The Hill of Evil Counsel from the south wall, Jerusalem -- The South Wall of the Haram esh Sherif -- The upper Pool of Siloam -- The lower Pool of Siloam -- The Jewish cemetery in the Valley of Jehoshaphat -- Absalom's Pillar, Valley of Jehoshaphat -- The village of Siloam from the Tomb of St. James -- The Garden of Gethsemane -- Entrance to the Chapel of the Tomb of the Virgin -- Exterior of the Golden Gate -- Mosque and Church of the Ascension, Mount of Olives -- Neby Samwil, from the Mount of Olives -- Traditional site of Bethphage, the House of Figs -- Part of the North Wall of Jerusalem -- The quarries near to the Damascus Gate -- Grotto of Jeremiah -- Kefr et Tur, the village on the summit of Olivet -- Valley of Hinnom, from the north-west angle of the city wall -- The Birket Mamilla, commonly called the Upper Pool of Gihon -- Rock tombs north of Jerusalem -- The Citadel of Jerusalem from the Valley of Hinnom -- Saracenic Fountain on the aqueduct from Solomon's Pools -- Mount of Offence from the Valley of Hinnom -- Aceldama -- Summit of the Hill of Evil Counsel -- The Valley of Hinnom -- Caves in the Valley of Hinnom, east of Aceldama -- The lower portion of the Kedron Valley -- Jerusalem from the south -- Bir Eyub -- Job's Well.

OCLC

• ocm02132863
• 2132863
• SCSB-161759

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library