Christian Street- mostly Life in the Holy City's bazaar district- Jerusalem, Palestine.
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We are in the western part of the old city, facing north. The Jaffa Gate and the Tower of David are only a few minutes’ walk from here, off at the west (left). “Rather narrow, isn’t it, according to our notion of what a city street should be? But no wheeled vehicle ever enters the gates of Jerusalem. One often sees donkeys and camels but never carriages in these streets. The pavement looks fairly even and decently clean; in these respects it is by far the best street in the city. Most of the alleys and lanes of Jerusalem are in a state of vileness indescribable. These walls on either side are plan and gloomy, and the windows on the upper stories are iron-bound. Those upper stories are private homes. Everywhere in the city one finds arches like these swung across the streets; they are needed as props to the walls, for, underneath the foundations often rest on the ruins of earlier buildings. On the ground floors little shops front upon the street and their wares often encroach upon the roadway. That key hung up in front and the clock beyond it, tell the passers what re for sale. You might suppose the shopkeepers would want all the light possible in such shaded streets, but sunshine is never welcome to Orientals, and they hang curtains and awnings overhead. Through a street not unlike this, Jesus was walking one day when He saw the blind man begging (John ix. 1-7). It was in such a street as this that the people laid their sick after the Day of Pentecost that the shadow of Peter might fall on them (Acts v. 15).” - Local identifier
- 1998.4.3.jjj
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