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Picture of hundreds of people gathering in front of a stone wall in Jerusalem as the sun rises behind a nearby hill

Western Wall

As dawn breaks in Jerusalem, hundreds of Jews gather at the Western Wall. As one of Judaism's holiest sites, worshippers from all over the world make pilgrimages here to pray and leave notes to God that they place in the cracks in the wall.
Photograph by James Stanfield, Nat Geo Image Collection