Qualla: Jerusalem https://qualla.com/jerusalem en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/tpc/je/ru/sa/le/jerusalem/2013-aerial-mount-of-olives.jpg Qualla: Jerusalem https://qualla.com/jerusalem Jerusalem: Introduction https://qualla.com/jerusalem/ Photo credit Marek69, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Temple Mount measures roughly 35 acres - a trapezoid platform in the center of Jerusalem's Old City, sacred to three religions for different reasons that have made it perhaps the most contested piece of real estate on Earth. Jews believe Abraham bound Isaac for sacrifice here, and that Solomon built the First Temple on this spot. Muslims believe Muhammad ascended to heaven from the rock now covered by the Dome of the Rock. Christians honor the site Jesus visited and the city where he died. The platform has been destroyed and rebuilt, conquered and reconquered, forbidden to and fought over by the peoples who consider it holy. Today it holds the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, administered by a Jordanian-led Islamic trust while Israeli security controls access. Jews pray at the Western Wall below, the last remnant of the Second Temple destroyed in 70 AD. The arrangements are fragile; violence erupts periodically; the old city remains divided into quarters - Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Armenian - whose boundaries reflect centuries of sectarian geography. Jerusalem holds 900,000 people in a city whose significance vastly exceeds its size.

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/9/h/jerusalem-wk/sv9h-jerusalem-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jerusalem: The Temple Mount https://qualla.com/jerusalem/ Photo credit Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0. Solomon built the First Temple in the 10th century BC, creating a permanent home for the Ark of the Covenant that his father David had brought to Jerusalem. The Babylonians destroyed it in 586 BC, exiling the Jews to Mesopotamia. The Second Temple was built after the return from ...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/9/h/jerusalem-wk/sv9h-jerusalem-the-temple-mount.mp3 0:06 2 full Jerusalem: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre https://qualla.com/jerusalem/ Photo credit Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands on the site where tradition holds Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected. The original church was built by Constantine's mother Helena in 335 AD, after excavations uncovered what she identified as the True Cross. The church has been d...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/9/h/jerusalem-wk/sv9h-jerusalem-the-church-of-the-holy-sepulchre.mp3 0:06 3 full Jerusalem: The Old City Quarters https://qualla.com/jerusalem/ Photo credit Marek69, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Old City measures less than one square kilometer, enclosed by walls built by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century, divided into four quarters that reflect the religious geography of centuries. The Muslim Quarter is largest and most densely populated, its souks leading...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/9/h/jerusalem-wk/sv9h-jerusalem-the-old-city-quarters.mp3 0:06 4 full Jerusalem: The Divided City https://qualla.com/jerusalem/ Photo credit --Nasib Bitar 21:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC), Public domain. From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was physically divided: Jordan controlled the Old City and East Jerusalem, Israel the western neighborhoods. A concrete wall and barbed wire ran through the city center. Jews could not reach the Western Wall; Arabs could not reach their families in th...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/v/9/h/jerusalem-wk/sv9h-jerusalem-the-divided-city.mp3 0:06 5 full Jerusalem: The New City https://qualla.com/jerusalem/ Photo credit David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0. Beyond the Old City walls, modern Jerusalem spreads across the Judean hills. The western neighborhoods - Rehavia, German Colony, Katamon - were built in the 19th and 20th centuries as the city expanded beyond its medieval confines. The Israel Museum holds the Dead Sea Scrolls in ...

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