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).
read moreYad 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.
read moreThe Catholic Church of the Visitation in the Jerusalem suburb of Ein Karem is named after one of the most beautiful Gospel episodes - Mary's visit to Elizabeth.
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