Mount of Olives, the Roman Catholic church of Dominus Flevit, the Russian Church of Mary Magdalene and the Jewish Cemetery - Fotografía de stock

Dominus Flevit is a Roman Catholic church, the present church is built upon the foundations of an earlier Byzantine church. Russian Church of Mary Magdalene is a Russian Orthodox church completed in 1888, it features seven distinctive, gilded onion domes. The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives is the most ancient and most important Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. Burial on the Mount of Olives started some 3,000 years ago and continues to this day. The cemetery contains approx 70,000 - 150,000 tombs from various periods, including the tombs of famous figures in Jewish history