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Jerusalem's Western Wall gets a clean up
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Millions of people from different faiths come here every year to pray - and leave notes to God.
But all those notes take up space.
So on Sunday, religious officials carried out a semi-annual house cleaning of Judaism's holiest site.
They pried hundreds of thousands of notes from the crevices of the wall - enough to fill over 100 shopping bags.
The tidying up means future worshippers - who include large numbers of Christians - will be able to leave notes, says the rabbi in charge of the wall.
The structure is a remnant of the Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 AD.
It sits on ground considered holy by Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Andrew Raven, Reuters
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