Pedestrians crossing Sultan Suleiman St.

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As you see (click once or twice), the zebra pedestrian crossing on busy Sultan Suleiman Street is a suggestion only.
Those Arab women down there know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
I took this picture from the top of Schmidt's College (now also including the Paulushaus guest house), at the corner of Nablus Road.

The stairs on the photo's  left lead down to the great Damascus Gate, one of several entrances into the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.
The east Jerusalem Arab bus terminal is nearby; the small blue and white bus is one of many that go to Bethlehem and back all the time.

City Daily Photo's Theme Day today is "Pedestrians crossing."
Go take a look at the surprising interpretations our fellow bloggers are coming up with!
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UPDATE, Tuesday:  At this very place some violence occurred today.
The Times of Israel reports:

"Dozens of East Jerusalemites protested the death of a Palestinian prisoner Tuesday, with riot police called in to disperse the demonstration with teargas.

Five people were arrested following the demonstration near Damascus Gate outside the Old City. Protesters reportedly hurled rocks at police, drawing teargas fire."

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Bus #3 to Mashhad

I needed the expert services of the sandlar, the shoe repairman, in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City today.
So I took the tram all across Jerusalem, from Mt. Herzl in the west to the Damascus Gate station in the east.

The city recently opened a new Arab bus and mini-bus terminal right next to that same tram/light rail station.
The routes seem to be mostly to the Arab towns and villages in the West Bank.

I photographed this particular sign for two blog-friends from Mashhad, but a different one, a real city,  in another country.
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Cathedral organ mirrors

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Two mirrors are needed for the organist because he sits with his back to the choir, minister, and congregation.
People and pews are reflected here, and they are going into James' Weekend Reflections meme.
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A different view in the mirrors, gotten by my scrunching down to pedal level.

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The organ was built by the Rieger Company of Austria which specializes in constructing organs requiring minimal service, for places with wide variations in temperature and humidity.

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Dedicated in 1898, the Cathedral of St. George the Martyr, mother church of the Anglican/Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, is home to both an Arabic-speaking and an English-speaking congregation.

It is on Nablus Road in east Jerusalem.

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Bridges and benches in the Garden Tomb

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British General Charles Gordon literally lost his head at the hands of Mahdist rebels in the Sudan, in the ill-fated defense of Khartoum.

But in Israel he is better known for having "discovered" Gordon's Calvary.
Three holes in the cliff, when seen from afar, make it look like a skull, i.e. Golgotha in Aramaic, the "place of the skull" mentioned in the New Testament as where Jesus was crucified.

And just on the other side of where the fence now stands, Gordon discovered an ancient tomb.
He decided that this, and not the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was the true place of the crucifixion and burial.

Most scholars do not agree.
But this did not stop popular Protestant piety from making the site, today called the Garden Tomb, into the most moving place for prayer and meditation for non-Catholic pilgrims.

Group after group stands in line to enter the small room of the tomb for a brief minute.

In any one of the many clusters of benches you can hear hymns rising, or sermons, or readings from the Gospels--in Finnish or Spanish or African languages or even English.

Several bridges make large parts of the garden handicapped accessible.

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Here's a picture for both Louis' Sunday Bridges and the bench-blogging friends.

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The old arches are more graceful than the modern straight lines.

The bench-groupings are everywhere, each with its own altar.

Each table is ready with the Communion elements.

The Garden is owned and administered by The Garden Tomb (Jerusalem) Association, a Charitable Trust based in the United Kingdom. There virtual tour is here.

The exit from the Garden Tomb is through the gift shop.

For pictures of inside the tomb and of the surroundings and of the huge cistern, see Sacred Destinations and BiblePlaces.com.

UPDATE: Dear readers, please see my clarification of some things in the Comments section.
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(Linking to inSPIRED Sunday.)
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We deliver

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Sultan Suleiman Street is a main, usually congested, thoroughfare in east Jerusalem just outside the Old City wall; and it is the main street of Arab businesses.

The wide sidewalk between the city wall and Sultan Suleiman at times becomes a loading zone.

Big trucks, which cannot enter the narrow lanes of the Old City, off-load merchandise here.

It is then carried through the closest gate into the Old City.

"Carrying" can mean on a porter's back or head or on a small dolly.

But the normal means of transportation is this cart.

Note the tire on a chain. On a downhill, the driver steps on it and slows down.

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I still remember my first year in Israel--donkeys were still in use inside the Old City.
No more.

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