7th Station, Via Dolorosa

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Near bustling Souq Khan Al Zeit St is the 7th Station, where it is believed Jesus fell for the second time. The station is a small chapel marked by signs on the wall of the souq.

In the 1st century, this was the edge of the city, and a gate led out to the countryside; this is believed to lend weight to the claim that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the genuine location of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.


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