Holy Land
Three faiths' heartland
The Holy Land is the region along the eastern Mediterranean—roughly modern Israel, Palestine, and parts of Jordan—considered sacred in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jerusalem lies at its heart.
The term appears in religious contexts and discussions of pilgrimage: They traveled to the Holy Land to walk where Jesus walked.
It often surfaces in debates over territorial claims rooted in religious history.
Middle Eastern nation
- PalestineLevantine coastal region
- JordanLevantine nation or name
- CanaanAncient Palestinian region
- GalileeBiblical northern territory
Judea · Samaria · Negev · Dead Sea · River Jordan · Mediterranean coast · desert · West Bank
Jerusalem's contested sacred plateau
- Western WallTemple Mount retaining stones
- Dome of the RockIslamic shrine on Temple Mount
- Al-Aqsa MosqueJerusalem's silver-domed shrine
- City of DavidOld Jerusalem's original settlement
Mount Zion · Old City · Jewish Quarter · Mount of Olives · Golden Gate · Bethlehem · Nazareth · Jericho
Religious journey-taker
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- journeyTravel from place to place
- shrineSacred devotional place
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
veneration · relics · saints · sacred sites · prayer · indulgence · Way of the Cross · spiritual journey
Quality of being inviolable
- consecratedDeclared sacred through ritual
- blessedReceiving divine favor
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- divine promiseDeity's binding commitment
Abrahamic · Torah · Gospel · Quran · scripture · prophecy · sacred ground · religious significance
Aggressive advocacy campaigns
- biblicalOf sacred texts
- OttomanMember of Turkish dynasty
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
archaeology · Dead Sea Scrolls · Masada · Canaanite · Phoenician · Hellenistic · Persian · Babylonian exile
One's regular paid work
- intifadaArab popular rebellion
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- settlementsEstablished communities or agreements
borders · checkpoints · refugees · ceasefire · armistice · uprising · resistance · tension
Israel
Middle Eastern nation
Galilee · Judea · Samaria · Negev · Dead Sea · River Jordan · Mediterranean coast · desert · West Bank · Gaza
Temple Mount
Jerusalem's contested sacred plateau
- Western WallTemple Mount retaining stones
- Dome of the RockIslamic shrine on Temple Mount
- Al-Aqsa MosqueJerusalem's silver-domed shrine
City of David · Mount Zion · Old City · Jewish Quarter · Mount of Olives · Golden Gate · Bethlehem · Nazareth · Jericho · Hebron
pilgrim
Religious journey-taker
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- journeyTravel from place to place
- shrineSacred devotional place
devotion · veneration · relics · saints · sacred sites · prayer · indulgence · Way of the Cross · spiritual journey · Christian pilgrimage
sanctity
Quality of being inviolable
- consecratedDeclared sacred through ritual
- blessedReceiving divine favor
- covenantBinding formal pledge
divine promise · Abrahamic · Torah · Gospel · Quran · scripture · prophecy · sacred ground · religious significance · monotheism
crusades
Aggressive advocacy campaigns
Byzantine · archaeology · Dead Sea Scrolls · Masada · Canaanite · Phoenician · Hellenistic · Persian · Babylonian exile · Kingdom of Israel
occupation
One's regular paid work
- intifadaArab popular rebellion
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- displacementRemoval from usual location
settlements · borders · checkpoints · refugees · ceasefire · armistice · uprising · resistance · tension · siege
- religious historyChristian history, Jewish history, early Christianity, early church, church councils
- Jewish Placesshul, beit midrash, mikvah, mikveh, yeshiva
- Christian Zionismbiblical prophecy, end times, second coming, rapture, Israel
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- Middle EastIraq, Baghdad, Cairo, Iran, Jordan
- Biblical GeographyIsrael, Judea, Galilee, Canaan, Samaria
Holy Landcursed land
Territory under supernatural doom
Sodom · Gomorrah · Babylon · forbidden zone · Egypt
Holy LandHell
Underworld of torment
Hades · Gehenna · the underworld · cursed ground · Tartarus
land, holy, landing, landscape, landed, landmark, unholy, holiness, mainland