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Conservation of Zahal Square Section |
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In 2004 several stones fell from the city wall into the courtyard of Ecole des Frere. This incident caused those charged with safeguarding the city's assets to stand up and take notice, at which time a physical survey was performed along the entire length of the city wall...
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The section of the city wall known as Zahal Square is located in an area that was situated outside Jerusalem's city limits at the time of the First and Second Temples. The presumed route of the city walls during the Byzantine period did not pass through this area either.
It was probably only during the Umayyad period that the city wall followed this route for the first time, and where the Ottoman wall was erected hundreds of year later.
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