Yesterday I went to Jerusalem as I love to do this at weekends. To meet my friends living there, to drink a beer with them, to go with my camera and to talk with strangers.
The last point is the most interesting thing to do - especially for one who always felt out of the comfort zone when it was on the agenda of my trip as well.
Due to Ramadan days and the renewed confrontation between different nationalities in the city (nothing new, the politicians again are using this "ace" for their interest), the whole city wasn't too active and crowd, exclude Damascus Gate (or Sha'ar Shkhem) where the local market was over-over crowded by the guests and the locals doing their Holidays shopping. But this will be another separate post with the photographs I photographed on my way to the Damascus Gate and through the near streets.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was empty. It was the first time when I saw it like this - without scurrying everywhere tourists and photographers.
The light, falling through a round hole in the floor was incredible as never.
I had some free time and without haste walked through the territory of the church and even found some interesting and hidden room which I didn't saw before.
I found some information about this small room here :
The Syrian Chapel is a small room behind the Rotunda, just a few steps from the tomb of Jesus provides access to other tombs from the same period. This is a photo
of the altar in the Syrian Chapel. First-century tombs from the time of Christ that were cut into the abandoned quarry can be accessed just to the right of this photo in this Syrian Chapel.
Some images from the Church's yard, the roof, and the streets around.
On my way home I stopped to take this photo of the sunset that finished this beautiful day with these colors. And even I'm not a man of sunsets and colors - I wanted this to finish my story.
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