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Western Wall or Wailing Wall

Western Wall or Wailing Wall is a place that has a variety of unique history that are considered important and holy by both Jews and Muslims. Its history is for the Muslims of this wall is part of the base and the Aqsa Mosque Omar Mosque (Arabic: As-قبة الصخرة Qubbat Sakhrah), and believed to be the departure gate where the Prophet Muhammad from Jerusalem to heaven (Ascension) by riding Buraq. In addition to the place where Prophet Muhammad maintains his own horses.
As for Jews, this wall is the wall to lament the destruction of the Jewish Synagogue. Jews do not believe that this wall were destroyed because that's where dwells "Shekhinah" (divine presence). Thus, praying there was tantamount to pray to the Lord.
So the original wall has a length of about 485 meters, and now the rest is just 60 meters to the world is regarded as one of the walls of the most historic and influential ever.



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Kremlin Walls

Kremlin Walls is one of the walls are very famous and legendary in the world. This wall is a defensive wall that surrounds the Moscow Kremlin.
Red brick wall which had stood for 700 years. The length of this wall at 1.4 miles with a wall thickness varying between 3.5 to 6.5 meters. And in this wall there is the mausoleum where the body resides the highest Russian leaders like Stalin and Brezhnev.
And now this wall belong to one of the most historic walls that ever existed.


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The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall is a wall that is very historic and famous in the world, which was established on August 13, 1961 by East Germany's communist government under the leadership of Walter Ulbricht. And this wall is made ​​of concrete barrier built by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) which separated West Berlin and East Berlin and other eastern German regions, making an enclave of West Berlin.

The history of the construction of this wall is due in 1949 to 1961 was more than 2 million people fled East Germany through Berlin. Thus making the East German economy into oversized, because most people who are young who escaped. So secretly and suddenly the wall was built.

In November 2009 this is a celebration of 20 years end of the rule "strong" this dividing wall. And now the wall is known as one of the very historic walls that once existed in the world.
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