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PHOTO OF THE DAY May 23, 2003  

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Where Jerusalem, Israel
When 1984
Photographer James L. Stanfield

A Muslim woman walks up a flight of stairs near the Dome of the Rock mosque (not in picture). Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad rose to heaven from the rock inside the mosque.

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

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