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Jerusalem, Israel

1984

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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