Jerusalem's Western Wall gets a clean up

Jerusalem's Western Wall gets a clean up

Worshippers line up against Jerusalem's 2000-year-old Western Wall.br Millions of people from different faiths come here every year to pray - and leave notes to God.br But all those notes take up space.br So on Sunday, religious officials carried out a semi-annual house cleaning of Judaism's holiest site.br They pried hundreds of thousands of notes from the crevices of the wall - enough to fill over 100 shopping bags.br The tidying up means future worshippers - who include large numbers of Christians - will be able to leave notes, says the rabbi in charge of the wall.br The structure is a remnant of the Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 AD.br It sits on ground considered holy by Jews, Christians and Muslims.


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Uploaded: 2011-09-26

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