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Jerusalem has been location for "Jerusalem Arab Film Festival", for exhibiting Palestinian films. [325] The city is home to numerous artists, singers, actors, actresses and filmmakers. [ 326 ] Established in 1991, Riwaq have been working on various projects to restore cultural and historical sites across Palestine . [ 327 ]
The Old City of Jerusalem (Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, romanized: Ha'ír Ha'atiká; Arabic: المدينة القديمة, romanized: al-Madīna al-Qadīma) is a 0.9-square-kilometre (0.35 sq mi) walled area [2] in East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem has been the holiest city in Judaism and the spiritual center of the Jewish people since the 10th century BC when the site was chosen during the lifetime of King David to be the location of the Holy Temple. [3] The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is the burial place of the Jewish patriarchs: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and ...
El Qala and Davids Tower in the 1936 Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map.jpg; Pools of Siloam in the 1936 Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500 (cropped).jpg; Qasr Jalud in the Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500 (cropped).jpg; Madrasah al-Tankiziya (labelled 12) in the Old City ...
The map is a south-facing birds eye-view of an oval-shaped Jerusalem, showing realistic depictions of a number of the city's main buildings. The Islamic crescent is shown on top of a number of structures, including the Dome of the Rock .
The Tower of David and the city walls. The Tower of David (Hebrew: מגדל דוד, romanized: Migdál Davíd), also known as the Citadel (Arabic: القلعة, romanized: al-Qala'a), is an ancient citadel and contemporary museum, located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem.
City of David: 1000 BCE: Second Temple Period: 538 BCE–70 CE: Aelia Capitolina: 130–325 CE: Byzantine: 325–638 CE: Early Muslim: 638–1099: Crusader: 1099–1187
The gate's location is determined by the city's topography. It stands at the point where the valley followed by Jaffa Road meets the city wall at the upper end of the Transversal Valley, which bisects the Old City in a roughly west–east direction, between the northwest ridge and the southwest hill known as Mount Zion.