Dmitry Medvedev (right)
Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev paid a visit to Israel, reports RIA Novosti.
Later Wednesday evening, November 9, he walked around the Old city of Jerusalem and visited the two key religious monument — the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Jerusalem Church of the Resurrection, stands on the spot where, according to Church tradition, was crucified, buried and then resurrected Jesus Christ.
The modern Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a huge architectural complex that includes, in particular, Golgotha the place of Crucifixion and the Edicule — a small bathing chapel which contains the Holy Sepulchre.
In the temple there are several active monasteries.
The Wailing wall is part of the ancient wall around the Western side of the Temple mount in the Old city, after surviving the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the year 70 of our era. Along with the Temple mount it is the most important Shrine of Judaism, a place of prayer and object of pilgrimage of the Jews.