Sunday, May 27, 2007

Monastery of Temptation



Near the upper right of this picture is the Eastern Orthodox Monastery of Temptation, built on the mountain outside Jericho traditionally associated with the Three Temptations of Christ. The caves near it were where monks lived before the monastery building was built in Ottoman times.

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