Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0301Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of three men standing on a hill looking back towards a city. Above the image "T498 (Star)" is printed, below the image "19669T Jerusalem, the City of the Great King, from the Mount of Olives, Palestine." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
19669
JERUSALEM FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, PALESTINE
Looking down from the brow of Olivet, we see Jerusalem, "the City fo the Great King." The valley between is the Valley of Jehoshaphat, through which flows the brook of Kedron. In the wall directly opposite we are able to make out the closed-up arches of the Golden Gate through which, tradition had it, a Christian conqueror would enter and rescue the Holy City form the Moslems. In December, 1917, such a conqueror in the person of General Allenby did enter the city and terminate its Turkish dominion but his entrance was through the Jaffa gate.
We are looking upon the Mohammedan quarter of the city. The Christian quarter is in the farther distance and to the right ; the Jewish and Armenian quarters are out of sight to the left. Just above the Golden Gate that large white area marks the site of Solomon's temple, and upon it you see the so-called Mosque of Omar, which, however, is wrongly so called, for it was not built by the Caliph Omar, and strictly speaking, it is not a mosque. But it is a building of surpassing interest, for directly under that dome is the great stone which was sacred crown of Mount Moriah, hence the more correct name of the structure, "the Dome of the Rock." All of that upper platform is "holy ground."
How much of history clusters around the rock beneath that dome! Before that altar Solomon stood, and Hezekiah prayed. Here Isaiah behold his glorious vision. Fifty years after the Temple fell under the fierce warriors of Nebuchadnezzar, the returning exiles and surviving people of the land scraped away the dust and ashes from those rocks, and began the second Temple which the Roman Titus destroyed in 70 A.D.
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