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Jerusalem (Old City)

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A city holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and one of the most contested places on earth in both religious and political terms. Among its monuments are the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque on the platform Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call al-Haram al-Sharif. Its political status is disputed: sovereignty over the Old City and East Jerusalem is not internationally settled, and the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981 at the request of Jordan and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1982, where it remains. This package describes the claims of each tradition as claims, adjudicates none of them, and takes no position on the political dispute.

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  1. Story
  2. A city holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and one of the most contested places on earth in both religious and political terms. Among its monuments are the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque on the platform Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call al-Haram al-Sharif. Its political status is disputed: sovereignty over the Old City and East Jerusalem is not internationally settled, and the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981 at the request of Jordan and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1982, where it remains. This package describes the claims of each tradition as claims, adjudicates none of them, and takes no position on the political dispute.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Islam
  5. Christianity
  6. Judaism
  7. Jerusalem (Old City)
  8. Connections
  9. Christianity
  10. Islam
  11. Judaism
  12. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
  13. Alexandria
  14. Constantinople
  15. Judaism
  16. Jerusalem (Old City)
  17. Aksum
  18. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
  19. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
  20. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
  21. Alopen received at the Tang court
  22. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  23. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
  24. Bukhara
  25. Kashgar
  26. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  27. Battle of Talas
  28. Mecca (Makkah)
  29. Jerusalem (Old City)
  30. Malacca (Melaka)
  31. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
  32. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  33. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
  34. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  35. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  36. Christianity
  37. Jerusalem (Old City)
  38. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  39. Evidence
  40. The Old City, holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, contains some 220 historic monuments including the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; it was inscribed in 1981 at the request of Jordan and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1982, where it remains, in part because of unclear legal status and absence of an agreed conservation policy.
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