Jerusalem: Church of St. Mary Magdalene
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The Church of St. Mary Magdalene is a Russian Orthodox Church built on the slopes of the Moutn of Olives. It was constructed by Alexander III of Russia in 1888 and he dedicated it to his mother, Maria. Buried inside is Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, wife of the Czar's brother Sergei, sister of the Czar's wife Alexandra, and granddaughter of English Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth, living in a convent at the time, was killed when the Bolshevik's took over Russian in 1917 and she is now a saint.
Jerusalem (Hebrew: Yerushalayim, Arabic: al-Quds) is a key religious city for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Because of this, it naturally has a great many religious structures - including a lot of churches. Nearly every denomination of Christianity has some sort of presence in Jerusalem and those that have been around the longest have the most visible presence: large, ornate churches of great antiquity, some going back thousands of years.
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