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Pictures of life in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Hills. And since August 2013 also a look at the northern Negev, my new home.

Showing posts with label Ascension Chapel. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ascension Chapel. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Kawas ceremonial guards at the Ascension

. On their calendar, today was the great Feast of the Ascension for Orthodox and Eastern Christians. . Jerusalem's Chapel of the Asc...

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Ascension Day in Jerusalem

. Happy Ascension Day to the Catholics and other Christians celebrating it today. This is the ancient Chapel of the Ascension on...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Ascension

. The incense was ready for today's Feast of the Ascension. These are my pictures from 2012 but it is the same ritual every ye...

Friday, May 25, 2012

Ascension Day at Christendom's 2nd holiest site

. As I started telling you yesterday, Thursday was Ascension Day for the Orthodox churches. It was my first time to see the very old Cha...

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Happy Ascension Day

. It was a day of much incense on the Mount of Olives this morning! Greek Orthodox, Russian, Armenian, Coptic, and Syrian clergymen were a...

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Sky-watching at Chapel of the Ascension

. Sky-watching did not start with our meme SkyWatch Friday . The apostles were doing it on this day almost two thousand years ago. The Ne...

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