Sentence:  Just before coming to the mosque entrance I <WSD>crossed</WSD> the street , entered the Hippodrome , and walked ahead to the Obelisk of Theodosius , originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt about 1600 B. C. by Thutmose , who also built those now in New York , London and Rome at the Lateran . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  travel across or pass over