Our morning in Jerusalem started with the history of Christianity in Jerusalem. The strongest presence in the Old City and in the country is the Greek Orthodox Church. Their symbol, a T interlocked with an O, can be found in numerous places in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. There is also a Greek Catholic and an Armenian Orthodox Church. These three denominations--along with Franciscan Roman Catholics and others--share the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but they do not get along at all, except when they are forced to. Case in point... they cannot agree on who gets to clean the first stair of a staircase that ascends from the courtyard in front of the church.
Later in the day, Muki brought us to a lookout on top of a public roof in the Old City in Jerusalem. In the U.S., there is no such thing as a public basement or a public roof, but Jerusalem has both.
As Muki put it, "The Status Quo in Jerusalem in Holy." Everything is complicated here.
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