Sacred Biography and History, Containing Description of Palestine, Ancient and Modern

1878

Special Collections BS571 TJ58

Guelph, Ontario: J.W. Lyon & Co.

Sites of religious importance such as the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة‎ Qubbat al-Sakhrah, Hebrew: Kippat ha-Sela), the al-Aqsa Mosque (Arabic: المسجد الاقصى‎ al-Masjid al-‘Aqṣā), and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Arabic: كَنِيسَةُ ٱلْقِيَامَة‎ Kaneesatu al-Qeyaamah), supposedly the site where Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, continue to attract visitors to the Holy City of Jerusalem. This late 19th century ‘bird’s eye view’ map conveys a certain simplicity, especially when compared to modern day maps. Jerusalem and Bethlehem is surrounded by Asia Minor (most of the modern Republic of Turkey), Mesopotamia (roughly most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, South-eastern Turkey), and Egypt and Sinai Peninsula. Much has changed since the 1880s.