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Title: A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e declares that the edifice has been so thoroughlyaltered by the Mohammedans that it is entirely Arab as it stands; but that its form of a basilica, its. cruciform plan, and the exist-ence of certain ancient remains, prove that it was preceded bya Christian church whose ruins served as the kernel of themosque. When the Persians captured the city, a. d. 6ii, the Church ofSt. Mary escaped destruction. Omar, upon entering Jerusalemin a. d. 636, prayed in it (it appears then to have been called theChurch of the Resurrection), and the spot on which he knelt isstill shown. About a century and a half later, the church beingin ruins, El-Mahdi, the third Khalif of the Abassidean dynasty,,ordered it to be rebuilt as a mosque. Upon the capture of thecity by the Crusaders it was restored to its uses as a Christianchurch, and was variously called the Palace, Porch, or Templeof Solomon. A portion of it appears to have been at first usedas the royal palace. Baldwin II. assigned a part to a new mill-
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(379) 380 AROUND THE WORLD. tary order, which was from this circumstance called the KnightsTemplar. When Saladin retook the city he purified it, andmade a mosque of it once more. The present mosque is built in the form of a basilica of sevenaisles, and is 272 feet long, and 184 feet wide. In the southeast corner of the Haram area is the Mosque ofIsa (Jesus), in which is the entrance to the vaults in this section. Whatever may be ones views as to the genuineness of thesite, there can be no question that one of the most interestingplaces in the city is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, coveringthe traditional sites of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of ourLord. It stands in what was formerly the upper city, the ancientAkra, immediately south of the Street of the Palace, and west ofthe Street of the Gate of the Column. From whichever direc-tion one approaches it, the way lies through narrow, filthy streetsand small bazaars, generally filled with ragged Arab women sell-ing vegetables and

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