Sultan's Night

With the wild and wonderful music of Sultan's Night at our hotel - Golden Walls -  in the background, the end of another day of wonderful sights, sounds and theological ponderings comes to a close

Beginning our day on the other side of the city from our Hotel, we visited the Upper Room which is believed to be in the vicinity of the site where Jesus gathered with the Disciples for the Last Supper. Like many of the sites in the Holy Land, it has had an interesting history, passing from hand to hand for 'owenership' as different occupying forces, both miltary and religious have come to the fore. Nowdays it is not used for any form of worship beyind that offered by those who visit and recall the account of Jesus being there with his disciples, as well as possibly sing the lovely hymn: An Upper Room did our Lord prepare

More tomorrow as I have to be up in the morning to take a few of the Group to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre when it is quiet, rather than today's shenanigans when it was utter chaos. I have never experienced it like today. It was so unseemly as people pushed and shoved to make their way towards the place of Golgotha... and we didn't even attempt to make it to the Tomb as there were security guards holding people back. One obviously needed to be one of the great and the good, like the Roman Catholics and Franciscans who were offering worship and were afforded a clearing of the way and escort as they made their way around the church... whilst we all waited (and gawped a bit) as they went by

As I say, more tomorrow - after an early start, worship at St George's Cathedral and then a visit to Yad Vashem