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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,457 Jerusalem in the middle of the mountains of Judea in the 11th century AD. 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:07,808 Originally built as a small fortress, 3 00:00:07,826 --> 00:00:12,262 Jerusalem became an important place for the monotheistic religions: 4 00:00:12,307 --> 00:00:15,826 Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 5 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:21,473 Their holy sites lie within the fortress walls of the Old City. 6 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:24,823 For Christians, this place is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher: 7 00:00:24,869 --> 00:00:28,335 built on the site where, according to tradition, the tomb of Jesus was. 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,171 For the Jews it is the Wailing Wall: originally built 9 00:00:32,213 --> 00:00:36,263 as the outer wall of a plateau on which the Jewish temple once stood. 10 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:39,531 Today, the Islamic Dome of the Rock is located here. 11 00:00:39,957 --> 00:00:43,673 The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount is the place of worship of the Muslims. 12 00:00:43,685 --> 00:00:47,338 In almost no other city is religion as present as in Jerusalem.