Jerusalem

**//Why was Jerusalem important to the Christians? //** ael**//Jerusalem was important to the Christians because for one, it was the place where Jesus was completing his ministry. It was also where he was crucified and later rose from the dead. Before then, Jerusalem was the center of the Jewish faith, the religion of the people in Israel, that of which the Christian faith had claimed to replace. After Constantine's victory, his mother Helena went to Jerusalem to identify all the holy sited where Jesus was in his last days of life. Churches were built there to commemorate the sanctity of what went on there.//** 
 * //Why was Jerusalem to the Muslims? //** **//Jerusalem was important to the Muslims because it used to be the city in which they prayed in the direction of, before it changed to the Mecca. In Muslim tradition, Mohammed traveled to Jerusalem one night and from there, it is said he made his descent into Heaven.//**