![]() ![]() (Today's Via Dolorosa extends westward from the western portion of that street.) Near the ruined Antonia Fortress and north of the Templum Domini precinct, Jehoshaphat Street led eastward to the Jehoshaphat Gate (near or at Lions' Gate on Lions' Gate Street), with the Valley of Jehoshaphat (near or in the Kidron Valley) beyond the gate. What the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem called Jehoshaphat Street ( Via Josaphat) was where present-day Via Dolorosa partly is. ĭuring the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholics of Jerusalem split into two factions, one controlling the churches on the western hill, the other the churches on the eastern hill they each supported the route which took pilgrims past the churches the faction in question controlled, one arguing that the Roman governor's mansion ( Praetorium) was on Mount Zion (where they had churches), the other that it was near the Antonia Fortress (where they had churches). By the 8th century, however, the route went via the western hill instead starting at Gethsemane, it continued to the alleged House of Caiaphas on Mount Zion, then to Hagia Sophia (viewed as the site of the Praetorium), and finally to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The first reports of a pilgrimage route corresponding to the Biblical events dates from the Byzantine era during that time, a Holy Thursday procession started from the top of the Mount of Olives, stopped in Gethsemane, entered the Old City at the Lions' Gate, and followed approximately the current route to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre however, there were no actual stops during the route along the Via Dolorosa itself. If the Via Dolorosa had continued west in a straight line across the two routes, it would have formed a triangular block too narrow to construct standard buildings the decumanus (now the Via Dolorosa) west of the Cardo was constructed south of its eastern portion, creating the discontinuity in the road still present today. In addition to the usual central north-south road ( Cardo Maximus), which in Jerusalem headed straight up the western hill, a second major north-south road was added down the line of the Tyropoeon Valley these two cardines converge near the Damascus Gate, close to the Via Dolorosa. Standard Roman city design places the main east-west road through the middle of the city, but the presence of the Temple Mount along much of the eastern side of the city required Hadrian's planners to add an extra east-west road at its north. ![]() One of the main segments is the modern remnant of one of the two main east-west routes ( Decumanus Maximus) through the Roman city of Aelia Capitolina, as built by Hadrian. The Via Dolorosa is not one street, but a route consisting of segments of several streets.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |