Sentence:  Just before <WSD>coming</WSD> to the mosque entrance I crossed 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:  move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody