Israel

Via Dolorosa, the "Way of Sorrow", is an extremely important street in Jerusalem for Christians. According to tradition, it was along this street that Christ carried his cross to the place of crucifixion.

The Monastery of the Holy Cross, associated with the name of Shota Rustaveli, is dear to every Georgian, but belongs to the Jerusalem Patriarchate (Greek Orthodox Church).

Yad Vashem is a museum of the Shoah. Shoah is the Hebrew name for the Holocaust, the mass extermination of Jews by Hitler's regime. Six million European Jews were shot, burned, gassed, and died of torture, starvation, and disease in concentrat... read more

The Orthodox Gorno Nunnery is located in the Ein Karem neighbourhood in the south-west of Jerusalem. The monastery, run by the Russian Spiritual Mission, is a small corner of Russia in the Holy Land.