From the tenth century a. C. Jerusalem has been the holiest city, the focus and spiritual center of the Jews. For a long time, Jerusalem has been integrated into Jewish religious consciousness and Jews have always studied and personalized the struggle for King David to capture Jerusalem and his desire to build the Sacred Temple there, as described in the book of Samuel.
Today's most important places are the western wall, the Huva synagogue and the Jewish quarter of the old city, as well...
more »From the tenth century a. C. Jerusalem has been the holiest city, the focus and spiritual center of the Jews. For a long time, Jerusalem has been integrated into Jewish religious consciousness and Jews have always studied and personalized the struggle for King David to capture Jerusalem and his desire to build the Sacred Temple there, as described in the book of Samuel.
Today's most important places are the western wall, the Huva synagogue and the Jewish quarter of the old city, as well as the ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Mea shearim.
This community is also establishing colonies in different parts of the West Bank to expand.
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its largest and most populous city, it is one of the oldest cities in the world. Jerusalem is considered a sacred city by the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For Judaism, this is where King David established the capital of the Kingdom of Israel and place of settlement of the Ark of the Covenant, and where his son Solomon built the Temple, where the prayers should go; for Christianity it is there where Jesus preached, was crucified and resurrected; It is also the third sacred city of Islam, where for the Muslims the prophet Mohammed went up to heaven and to which the first Muslims looked when they prayed, before moving on to face Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Its best known part is the so-called Old City of Jerusalem that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981 and is the epicenter for these three religions with places such as the Holy Sepulcher, The Via Dolorosa, the wailing wall or the Dome of the rock and there the three coexist with shops and markets that sell prayer mantles, rosaries and ceramics fill the busy alleys.
The Galilee region located northeast of Israel, about 100km long, was one of the main commercial centers of antiquity, and today it is one of the areas that has more archaeological sites in Israel and one of the main ones centers of perigranacion of the catholic religion by its connection with the history of Jesus Christ and to be able to follow its steps by localities like Nazareth, Tiberias, Magdala, Capernaun or Tabgha where according to the New Testament many of its miracles happened.
The Domus Galilaeae or Domus Galilea International Center is a training and retreat center in Israel, which since 1999 has been hosting a prayer point for people belonging to the Neocatechumenal Way and for the Catholic Church, located in the area called " Al-mubaraka "(the blessings), in the area of Korazim (Israel). The center's project was the idea of Kiko Argüello, initiator with Carmen Hernández of the Neocatechumenal Way, who, together with an international group of architects, designed a modern complex.
On March 24, 2000, with the visit and blessing of Pope John Paul II, it was the culmination of the center, in the absence of some details that were subsequently completed.
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