Close by the Russian Church of the Ascension is the Moslem Mosque of the Ascension. Located in a most ancient Byzantine structure, the mosque claims to also contain the spot from which Jesus ascended to heaven. Brooke pointed out to me one of the most fascinating features of the mosque. The mosque is set in the exact center of circular wall. Inside the wall at about waist height or a series of iron rings embedded in the rock wall. Brooke told me that these were used in Byzantine and Ottoman times to secure the edges of tents or to tether horses of visitors to the mosque.
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