Photo of the Day 11

Jerusalem, Israel, 1984

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

A view from Mount Scopus shows whitewashed above-ground tombs of the Muslim Cemetery outside the walls around Jerusalem's Old City. The Dome of the Rock Mosque (right) and the silver-domed Al-Aqsa Mosque (left) rise from inside the city walls.

Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish state of Israel, is home to religious sites that are profoundly important in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, a source of constant tension in the ancient city.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Searching for the Center: Israel," July 1985, National Geographic magazine)