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The map provides a detailed description of the old city of Jerusalem, with an accurate description of the ancient city's wall which was built by Suleiman the Magnificent, of the Temple Mount structures, and of the Tower of David. The structures surrounding the ancient city and the locations of the ancient city's streets are illustrated freely.
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 ...
May have been related to the development of the Survey of Palestine 1936 detailed map of Jerusalem at File:Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500.jpg (described in Annual Report, 1936, of the Department of Land and Surveys, pages 368, 368: "In 1936 a complete map of the Old City of Jerusalem was published on the scale 1/ ...
The cartography of the Old City of Jerusalem culminated in these two detailed British maps, showing the city as it stood in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. [ 25 ] The current walls of the Old City were built in 1535–42 by the Ottoman Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
"The Image of the Holy City: Maps and Mapping of Jerusalem". In Nitza Rosovsky (ed.). City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36708-1. Moscrop, John James (1 January 2000). Measuring Jerusalem: The Palestine Exploration Fund and British Interests in the Holy Land. A&C Black. pp. 22–.
Jerusalem 1:10,000 and 1:2,500 maps (see here): In 1936 a 1:2,500 map of the Old City of Jerusalem was published, the first detailed map since the 1865 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. [28] This was followed by 1:5,000 provisional plans of Jerusalem and its environs, which were reduced to 1:10,000 scale for general printing. [28]
Jews, Muslims and Christians pass daily through the gates of Jerusalem's Old City, on their way to and from prayers or simply to go about their everyday business in one of the most politically ...
The Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem of 1864–65 was the first scientific mapping of Jerusalem, and the first Ordnance Survey to take place outside the United Kingdom. [1] It was undertaken by Charles William Wilson, a 28-year-old officer in the Royal Engineers corps of the British Army, under the authority of Sir Henry James, as Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey, and with the sanction of ...