Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Secular leadership. Following the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Europe (with its Jewish "extension" the Haskalah movement, which led to much modern-day assimilation into the cultures of their native countries), the variety of Jewish practice grew, with a widespread adoption of secular values and life-styles.
The Sanctuary of Fátima ( Portuguese: Santuário de Fátima ), officially titled Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima ( Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima ), is a Marian shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima located in Fátima, in the municipality of Ourém, in Portugal. It consists of a group of Catholic religious ...
The Torah Ark, called in Hebrew ארון קודש Aron Kodesh [30] or 'holy chest' , and alternatively called the heikhal— היכל or 'temple' by Sephardic Jews, is a cabinet in which the Torah scrolls are kept. The ark in a synagogue is almost always positioned in such a way such that those who face it are facing towards Jerusalem. [31]
A National Shrine of the North American Martyrs has been constructed and dedicated in Auriesville, New York. It is located south of the Mohawk River, near a Jesuit cemetery containing remains of missionaries who died in the area from 1669 to 1684, when the Jesuits had a local mission to the Mohawk.
Western Wall. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [1] often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]), is a portion of ancient limestone wall in the ...
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, [9] [10] [a] and where two Jewish temples once stood. [12] [13] [14] According to Jewish tradition and scripture, [15] the First Temple was built by King Solomon, the son of King David, in 957 BCE, and was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, together with Jerusalem, in 587 BCE.
Yahweh[ a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [ 1] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [ 2] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [ 3] and ...
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, [a] also known as the Church of the Resurrection, [b] is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is also the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. [1] It is considered the holiest site in Christianity and has been the most important pilgrimage ...