Rooftops
in December; The Old City. A view of the belltower of the Holy Sepulchre and its domes -
on of the most imposing churches in Jerusalem, and at first sight reveals the unmistakable
features of Crusader architecture, plus a sort of mixture between the Norman and Arab
styles. It is, without a doubt one of the sights that visitors to the Holy City cannot
miss, a magnetic centre where many religious orders and sects congregate and bear forceful
witness to the Christian faith, a place sacred to the civil and religious awareness of
Christendom, irrespective of ethnic, racial or religious divisions. |