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The 4th century small shrine was dismantled in 480 and a bigger chapel was built by Martyrius of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem from 478 to 486. Martyrius was Egyptian by origin, and this may be the reason why the floor of his chapel was covered with a beautiful Nile mosaic , a style of art popular in the Byzantine time, describing Nilotic ...
Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda outdoor market is located next to Nachlaot. Rabbi Aryeh Levin, known as the "prisoners' rabbi" for his visits to members of the Jewish underground imprisoned in the Russian Compound, lived in Mishkenot Yisrael. Nahalat Ahim, south of Rehov Bezalel, was founded in 1925 for the Yemenite community.
Church of the Visitation (Ein Karem, Jerusalem) Co-Cathedral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus; Convent of the Sisters of Zion; Dominus Flevit Church; Dormition Abbey; Ecce Homo (church), part of the Convent of the Sisters of Zion; Garden of Gethsemane; Grotto of Gethsemane; St Anne's Church; St. Stephen's Basilica (Saint-Étienne)
The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har haBayīt, lit. 'Temple Mount'), also known as The Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or simply al-Aqsa (/ æ l ˈ æ k s ə /; The Furthest Mosque المسجد الأقصى, al-Masjid al-Aqṣā), [2] and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, [3] [4] is a hill in the ...
Mount Zion was a designated no-man's land between Israel and Jordan. [15] Mount Zion was the closest accessible site to the ancient Jewish Temple. Until East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, Israelis would climb to the rooftop of David's Tomb to pray. [16]
Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn; [a] Biblical Greek: Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel , one of the books of the Tanakh dated to approximately the mid-6th century BCE.
Peaceful Dwellings) was the first Jewish settlement built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, on a hill directly across Mount Zion. It was built in 1859–1860. [ 1 ] This guesthouse was one of the first structures to be built outside the Old City , the others being Kerem Avraham , the Schneller Orphanage , Bishop Gobat school , and ...
'Valley of the Rebab'), [1] [2] is a historic valley surrounding Jerusalem from the west and southwest [3] that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology. The valley surrounds the Old City of Jerusalem and the adjacent Mount Zion from the west and south.