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Jerusalem. Mur où les Juifs vont pleurer Bonfils circa 1875

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Jerusalem. Mur où les Juifs vont pleurer   Bonfils circa 1875 - click to enlarge.

Jerusalem. Mur où les Juifs vont pleurer “Jerusalem. Wall where the Jews go to weep” by Félix Bonfils ca. 1875. This is an early original Albumen print on a thin sheet of paper with sepia color, signed in the negative and labeled as No. 245. The picture shows the Western Wall (Wailing Wall), which is Judaism's holiest shrine. This wall is part of the Temple Mount commonly thought to be a remnant of King Solomon's Temple. The wall was built by King Herod the Great in the first century BCE, when he enlarged the Jewish Temple Mount, burying the original structures in the process. Nevertheless, the Western Wall retains its holy status because of its symbolic connection with Judaism's original House of the Lord and its sanctification by centuries of fervent prayer. Print size: 28 X 22 cm (11 x 8.5 inches) mounted on cardboard.