It is a Jewish city, a Christian city and a Muslim city. Everyone is part of a majority group, when viewed from one perspective, and a minority group, when viewed from another perspective. Police regularly encounter people claiming to be Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Mohammed or all of the above. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is a perfect example. Many pilgrims are disappointed when they enter and discover that, instead of one unified sanctuary, the church is like a liturgical chess board, on which players representing many church traditions move in intricate patterns that symbolize ancient divisions as well as common roots.
Visitors expect to find perfection.
Instead, they find the human as well as the holy. Holy Sepulcher isn't perfect. The same thing is true of Jerusalem. Many of this city's problems have no solution. Jerusalem is a laboratory of the in-between.