ABSTRACT
During the Ottoman period the problems of the Holy Places were not matters of major concern, except between rival Christian sects. The Temple enclosure, now a Moslem Holy Place and for centuries in the possession of the Moslems, was supposed to be reserved for Moslem foot alone, but Europeans and Americans encountered little difficulty in securing admission in order to admire and enjoy the Eighth Wonder of the World. The coincidence of the Jewish Passover, the Orthodox Easter and the local Moslem festival of NebiMusa used to make one week in the spring the most anxious of the year for the Police and other administrative authorities of Jerusalem. In Jerusalem there is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which shelters under its roof the reputed site of the Crucifixion and of several other outstanding incidents in the earliest phase of Christian history.
