[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Jerusalem was the capital of King David’s Israel in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the city where David’s son Solomon built his temple. In biblical times, Jewish people who could not make a pilgrimage to the city were supposed to pray in the direction of it.

According to the Quran, Jerusalem was also the last place the Prophet Muhammad visited before he ascended to the heavens and talked to God in the seventh century.

Jerusalem has always been significant to Christians because of the places there where Jesus ministered and, most importantly, where he died and rose again. This is why Helen, mother of Constantine, built churches there in the 4th century that commemorated these events in the life of Jesus and is why Christians from every denomination on earth visit Jerusalem and these very churches and sites.

So who has more rights to Jerusalem? or should it be a shared religious city?

So we have a former capital, which is the place several historic buildings are and that a handful of historic figures have been to; and the muslims think it's where a paedo was before he flew into the sky? There's no prizes for guessing who has the weakest claim, at least.