The photographs, maps, travelers accounts, and physical
reconstructions that are the subject of this book once fired the
popular imagination with fantasies of a place called "the Holy
Land." It was a singular space of religious imagining, multilayered
and charged with symbolism. As Burke O. Long shows, there are many
holy lands, and they have been visualized in many ways since the
19th century. At the Chautauqua Institute in New York, visitors
could walk down Palestine Avenue to "Palestine" and a model of
Jerusalem, or along North Avenue to a scale model of the "Jewish
Tabernacle." At the St. Louis World s Fair of 1904, a replica of
Ottoman Jerusalem covered 11 acres, while 300 miles to the
southeast a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stood above a
modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills. For
home viewing, there were tours of the Holy Land via stereoscopic
photographs, books such as Picturesque Palestine, and numerous
accounts by travelers whose visions of the Holy Land shaped and
were shaped by American forms of Christianity and Judaism."
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