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The Antonia Fortress was a Herodian stronghold built against the Temple Mount’s north wall, traditionally identified as the site of Jesus’s trial before Pilate. Discussed here as part of a walk along the Via Dolorosa.

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Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem
Centre · Jerusalem

The Via Dolorosa

Walking the Via Dolorosa, station by station from the Antonia fortress to the aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. With a morning stop at the Garden Tomb, the Church of St Anne and the Pool of Bethesda.

Jun 2013 · 6 minute read
Burial Cave at The Garden Tomb, Jerusalem Church of St Anne, Jerusalem Ruins at Bethesda, Jerusalem Chapel of the Flagellation, Jerusalem Chapel marking one of Jesus' three falls on the Via Dolorosa Crosses left by pilgrims at station nine on the Via Dolorosa Roman Catholic mass inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Edicule of the Tomb, Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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