Figure 7.38 Sacred spaces. The three so-called Abrahamic faiths— Judaism, Christianity, and Islam— arose in the same place and thus their adherents revere some of the same holy sites. Left: Mount Sinai, in North Africa, is where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments as the Israelites continued their journey out of Egypt and is also mentioned several times in the Qur’an. Right: Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, in Israel. Standing above the wall, on the site of the destroyed Jewish temple, is one of the holiest sites for Muslims: the golden-capped mosque called the Dome of the Rock. (See also the photograph in Patricia’s Notebook.) (Left: Konrad Wothe/ age fotostock; Right: Gary Cralle/Gettyone.)