Panorama of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives - the place of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, the shrines of the Old City, monasteries and churches on the Mount of Olives (overview): Russian Savior-Ascension Monastery. Russian monastery of Mary Magdalene. Franciscan Church "Dominus Flevit" in the place where Christ mourned the future fate of Jerusalem. Carmelite monastery at the place where the Lord's Prayer was written. Garden of Gethsemane. Church of the Passion of the Lord at the site of the Prayer for the Chalice. Cave church with the tomb of the Most Holy Theotokos. The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Jerusalem".
Bethlehem. One of the most ancient temples in the Holy Land. Church of the Nativity of Christ at the birthplace of the Savior: the Cave of the Nativity, the cave of St. Blessed Jerome, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Bethlehem".
Ein Karem is a picturesque area of Jerusalem, where John the Baptist is believed to have been born and where Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, and the Virgin Mary met. Source of the Virgin Mary. Monasteries and temples of the City of Judah. Modern quarters of Jerusalem.
A visit to the city of Jerusalem is included in the bus excursion program from Egypt to Israel. After swimming in the Dead Sea, the people boarded a bus and drove into the interior of Israel. The place here is low, the elevation changes are sharp, the road goes along a serpentine road and the ears were not weaker than in the plane when landing.
Eternal City Jerusalem
He bursts into you with his densely spicy smells, variegated clothes and faces, the strongest energy of time accumulated in every centimeter of the earth. And everything that I knew and thought about this city does not work before, because you understand Jerusalem not with your mind, but with your heart.
Moreover, the Season of Culture, like many things in Israel, was organized by a private association, created on the initiative and supported by the Shusterman Foundation in Israel in cooperation with the Culture and Leisure Department of the Jerusalem City Hall. The 2012 Culture Season budget is 12 million shekels (less than $ 4 million). That's not a lot. So volunteers take on most of the organizational hassle.
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Thanks to the Season, in just five days in Jerusalem (and I came only for five days), you can visit many amazing concerts and exhibitions. Even such a unique historical place as the Old City (a place of pilgrimage for representatives of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam) becomes a platform for musicians' creativity.
It was the Tower of David that became the heart of the festival of liturgical music. It sounded for 24 hours throughout the city. And as the final of the marathon - an evening concert of the holy music of the New Jerusalem Orchestra, consisting of layering of stylistic layers of religious musical canons, Eastern and Western traditions, jazz and improvisation. More details here.
Although, in my opinion, the most exotic place for a concert within the framework of the festival was Music in the Cave. Yes, yes, in the real cave of King Hezekiah in the center of Jerusalem! Here, a unique opportunity opened up for the listener to feel how the idea of boundaries is changing, but rather of the boundlessness of the dialogue between art and the human soul.
In general, hundreds of musicians and artists live in Jerusalem permanently or come to live for a while in order to feed on the local atmosphere. They see Jerusalem from different angles: faith and unbelief, love and hate, peace and war. And this conflict of culture and history permeates everything they do. Against this background, the Music Among Houses project appeared, for example. Jerusalem is a very old city in terms of not only history, but also architecture. Its peculiarity, by the way, is the impossibility of determining the age of the building by eye because of the law adopted during the British Mandate to vene the facades of houses with Jerusalem stone. Hence the whole city (low because of the seismically active zone) is the color of baked milk, very warm and cozy. But houses are not just walls, each of them has its own story. And it pours into musicand ordinary city courtyards become a venue for concerts.
It is no coincidence that it is local musicians who create a project in which prayers are synthesized: Christian, Muslim, Jewish. With the help of new technologies, superimposing on each other, they create a single pulse. The pulse of man's eternal appeal to God.
The Chamber Music Festival takes place in Jerusalem for two weeks in September. This musical project is independent of the Culture Season and has been held for the 15th time. He very organically blended into the general idea and mood.
Jerusalem and surroundings. Bethlehem
Panorama of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives - the place of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, the shrines of the Old City, monasteries and churches on the Mount of Olives (overview): Russian Savior-Ascension Monastery. Russian monastery of Mary Magdalene. Franciscan Church "Dominus Flevit" in the place where Christ mourned the future fate of Jerusalem. Carmelite monastery at the place where the Lord's Prayer was written. Garden of Gethsemane. Church of the Passion of the Lord at the site of the Prayer for the Chalice. Cave church with the tomb of the Most Holy Theotokos. The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Jerusalem".
Bethlehem. One of the most ancient temples in the Holy Land. Church of the Nativity of Christ at the birthplace of the Savior: the Cave of the Nativity, the cave of St. Blessed Jerome, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Bethlehem".
Ein Karem is a picturesque area of Jerusalem, where John the Baptist is believed to have been born and where Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, and the Virgin Mary met. Source of the Virgin Mary. Monasteries and temples of the City of Judah. Modern quarters of Jerusalem.
The Old City of Jerusalem - the intertwining of times and religions
Christian Quarter - all stops on the Way of the Cross ("Via Dolorosa"), along which Jesus Christ walked to the place of His Death on the Cross. Threshold of the Judgment Gate, "Needle Eye" (Aleksandrovskoe courtyard). Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Adoration of the Holy Sepulcher. Calvary. Stone of Confirmation. The place where the life-giving Cross was found. Mount Zion. Upper room of the Last Supper. Tomb of King David. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Armenian quarter (overview): Church of Sts. Jacob, Armenian Patriarchate. Jewish quarter. Walk through the streets of the quarter, modern residential buildings and the remains of buildings from the times of the First and Second Jerusalem Temples. Cardo Street is the central street of the city during the Roman Empire. The Wailing Wall is the greatest Jewish shrine, where they leave notes with requests to the Almighty.