|
The view across the Old City encompasses some of the many worlds of Jerusalem. The artist made her sketch from the terrace at Ecce Homo — the convent and hostel of the Sisters of Zion — and the vista includes the two domes of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of the most holy sites in the Christian world. From Ecce Homo, located along the Via Dolorosa (in the Muslim Quarter of the city) one can hear both the muezzin’s call to prayer and the pealing of bells from churches in the Christian Quarter. The Sisters of Zion, a Roman Catholic order founded in the 19th century to promote reconciliation between Jews and Christians, is honored in the Grove of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial.
|