'Pilgrimage Road' in Jerusalem opens to visitors

'Pilgrimage Road' in Jerusalem opens to visitors

For the first time in 2,000 years, tourists walked the ancient pilgrimage road in Jerusalem’s City of David, beginning at the Pool of Siloam—where pilgrims once purified themselves—and ending near the Temple Mount. A truly historic moment – the newly opened Pilgrimage Road at the City of David is welcoming visitors for the first time in nearly 2,000 years. This stone-paved path once carried pilgrims from the Pool of Siloam up to the Temple Moun…

‘Pilgrimage Road’ in Jerusalem opens to visitors

A truly historic moment - the newly opened Pilgrimage Road at the City of David is welcoming visitors for the first time in nearly 2,000 years. This stone-paved path once carried pilgrims from the Pool of Siloam up to the Temple Mount for Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot, alive with shops and daily life during the Second Temple period.  Buried for centuries and uncovered stone by stone, it now offers the rare opportunity to walk the very road your …