All 5 Uses of
Jerusalem
in
The Da Vinci Code
- "The Priory of Sion," he began, "was founded in Jerusalem in 1099 by a French king named Godefroi de Bouillon, immediately after he had conquered the city."†
Chpt 37-38 *
- During their years in Jerusalem, the Priory learned of a stash of hidden documents buried beneath the ruins of Herod's temple, which had been built atop the earlier ruins of Solomon's Temple.†
Chpt 37-38
- Historians now suspected as many as six different Grail relocations since its arrival in Europe from Jerusalem.†
Chpt 39-40
- Consecrated on the tenth of February in 1185 by Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Temple Church survived eight centuries of political turmoil, the Great Fire of London, and the First World War, only to be heavily damaged by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs in 1940.†
Chpt 83-84
- The Knights Templar had designed Rosslyn Chapel as an exact architectural blueprint of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem—complete with a west wall, a narrow rectangular sanctuary, and a subterranean vault like the Holy of Holies, in which the original nine knights had first unearthed their priceless treasure.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(Jerusalem) capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims