|Looking east from the YMCA tower in Jerusalem in 1933. What is
in the picture?| Prominent in the foreground is the King David
Hotel. In the background are the Mount of Olives and Mount
Scopus. The two large synagogues were blown up in 1948 after the
Old City and Jewish Quarter fell to the Jordanian Legion.
|Enlargement of the three domes: Hurva, Tiferet| Yisrael and al
Aqsa |The two synagogues with the Hurva on the right| (Library
of Congress collection, 1900) The two synagogues were
prominently featured in the other pictures taken around 1900.
|The two synagogues, with Tiferet Yisrael on | In 1949, the city
of Jerusalem was riven by an armistice lines with barbed wires,
walls, and border crossings. It remained split until 1967 when
the city was reunited in the "Six-Day War." Click on the photos
to enlarge. Click on the captions to see the originals. The same
view today |Google Earth view today of the area in the 1933
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