Holy City

How To Use Holy City In A Sentence

• The fifth Pillar is the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, in present-day Saudi Arabia, which every Muslim must make at some time in his or her life.
• There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.
• But to forestall the recognition of a Palestinian state he will happily cosset influential end-timers like Glenn Beck, who apparently has a touch of Jerusalem syndrome, a religiously-induced form of psychosis I first learned about from an episode of The X-Files, in which a grey-haired millionaire leaves a trail of mayhem and destruction in his wake following a trip to the holy city. Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel
• Jesus's death on the cross was Pilate's way of telling Jerusalem's Jews, who had gathered in the holy city for the paschal holiday, to desist from any thought of rebellion.
• In the book of Revelation, the martyrs are vindicated by the descent of the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven to earth.
• Muslim pilgrims go around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca after morning prayers before the start of the hajj pilgrimage November 24, 2009.
• Is there a vernacular architecture or way of arranging space, particularly in the holy city, which has been developed or erected by devotees?
• Von Simson states that “the church is, mystically and liturgically, an image of heaven”, particularly the vision presented in Revelation of the “holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven” (21: 2). The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 2
• He rode his bicycle like a pilgrim on the quest for a holy city.
• KARBALA/BAGHDAD: At least 40 people were killed and 68 injured in two bomb attacks Monday in the Shia holy city of Karbala as large crowds gathered for a religious ceremony, witnesses and doctors said. The Times of India