Church
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
Neo-Romanesque Lutheran church raised over Crusader-era ruins, with a bell tower climb offering Old City panoramas.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem opens in 1898, when Kaiser Wilhelm the Second rode up on horseback wanting to enter through the old gate in style, and masons had to widen it just for him. It follows his dedication of the church on land an Ottoman sultan had handed a Prussian king three decades earlier, and an unexpected find that turned up while workers dug the foundations. Climb the bell tower's spiral staircase, one hundred seventy-eight steps, for the view the discovery was made beneath.
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