Special event

Celebrate Easter 2023 in Jerusalem

Official achievement authored by JimG008.

Jerusalem begins to fill up with Christian tourists as Easter approaches. Easter Sunday in 2023 falls on April 9, but special services will take place the whole week before starting on Palm Sunday, April 2, and continue until Easter Monday on April 10. Be prepared for crowds and a wonderful, meaningful experience in the city where you’ll be walking in Jesus’ final footsteps surrounded by fellow believers.

Easter in Jerusalem features an entire week of services, ceremonies, and other events.

Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives Join the popular reenactment of Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. Participants gather at the Church of Bethpage and begin to descend the Mount of Olives, singing hymns and bearing palm fronds. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Armenians, Copts and Syrians make three rounds around the rotunda in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Good Friday The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Celebration of the Passion of Christ on Calvary in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre Procession of the Way of the Cross at the Via Dolorosa with the Franciscan Fathers “Funeral Procession” in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre The Garden Tomb For Protestants, there is a Good Friday meditative service at the Garden Tomb.

Easter Sunday The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Entry of the Latin Patriarch, H.B. Fuad Twal Pontifical mass and procession The Garden Tomb Sunrise services Resurrection service

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Depart from an airport of your choice, fly to and land at LLJR, your flight distance must be further than 200 NM.
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16APR23 1350Z SY OSLK IL LLJR Lukas Chylek 222 nm 00:20
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13APR23 1151Z IT LICR IL LLJR Blacky 1088 nm 02:26
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12APR23 0233Z EG HECA IL LLJR Cyulator 246 nm 01:00
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11APR23 2200Z CY LCLK IL LLJR Kim_Snede65 206 nm 00:38
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09APR23 1515Z EG HEBA IL LLJR Maurice (wackomoe) Hachey 385 nm 01:13
09APR23 1153Z TR LTDA IL LLJR Devildude1 289 nm 00:24