Jerusalem

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Natives from Jerusalem

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A beautiful scene embracing the Grand Basin and Cascade Gardens.

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Upon an area of eleven acres the important streets and famous buildings of the Holy City have been wonderfully reproduced.

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LOOKING TOWARD JERUSALEM.

Looking toward the West from the western entrance of the Palace of Education and Social Economy, the splendid architectural detail of the corners of the Palace of Electricity is prominently shown. The domes of Jerusalem tower in imposing grandeur in tire distance. Tire larger of the domes is that upon the Mosque of Omar, which in the ancient city stands where stood ages ago tire Temple of Solomon. To the left in the picture are seen the Western Cascades and Fountain of the Atlantic. Tire grassy incline of Art Hill leads up to the splendid Restaurant Pavilion at the western extremity of the Colonnade of States. On this and the other slopes leading down from the Festival Hall to the general level of the Exhibit Palaces, flower gardens, so arranged as to give a perpetual show of color and beauty, have been planted. The natural conformation of the ground has been admirably adapted to the pictorial effect of the Exposition’s central feature.

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COURT OF DAVID IN JERUSALEM

The south end of the Jerusalem concession presents a strange combination of the old and the new. the classic and the modern. At the west side of David Street are two hotels, reproductions of those that were built in the Holy City for the benefit of European and American tourists. These hotels, the Grand New Hotel, and the Hotel Central, are three and four stories high aud have many of the modern improvements. In the World’s Fair Jerusalem they are used chiefly for office and store rooms. In front of the Grand New Hotel is a camel stand. Here a long line of camels is always waiting for passengers who are looking for a novel sensation or who want to carryout the illusion of the Orient to the last degree Across the street from the hotels are the oldest and most interesting portions of Jerusalem. Down a rather steep stairway from the street is the Courtyard of David in front of the reproduction of the old synagogue. At one side is the Tower of Phasaelus and at the other is the Tower of David, the place where the King is supposed to have written most of the Psalms. This part of the city was enclosed in a double wall, a part of which is still standing.

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JERUSALEM—THE GREAT REPRODUCTION OF THE HOLY CITY

This magnificent picture shows the grand scale upon which the work of reproducing the Holy City of Palestine at the World's Fair has been done. All Christendom has been interested in this undertaking which has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The city as here constructed covers about Id acres and embraces the most historic streets and buildings of the biblical city as it is today. Near the southern end, at the right of the picture, is the Jaffa Gate, which leads into David Court, the market place, a scene typical of Jerusalem. Hundreds of natives of the Holy City people this new Jerusalem and make interesting the sojourn of the World’s Fair visitor within the gates. The principal buildings here reproduced are the Mosque of Omar, the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Jews’ Wailing Wall, the diorama of the Mount of Olives, showing the Garden of Gethsemane, Valley of Kedron. the Dead Sea and the Mohammedan minaret erected on the spot of-the ascension, the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrow along which Christ bore the Cross, the barracks where Christ was tried and other historic places.