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At-Tur Church of the Pater Noster in At-Tur. At-Tur (Arabic: الطور, lit. 'The Mount'; [1] Hebrew: א-טור) is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, [2] occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
The highest point on the Mount of Olives is At-Tur, at 818 m (2,684 ft). [5] The ridge acts as a watershed , and its eastern side is the beginning of the Judean Desert . The ridge is formed of oceanic sedimentary rock from the Late Cretaceous and contains a soft chalk and a hard flint .
During this time, Saladin established the Mount of Olives as a waqf entrusted to two sheikhs, al-Salih Wali al-Din and Abu Hasan al-Hakari. This waqf was registered in a document dated 20 October 1188. [8] The chapel was converted to a mosque, and a mihrab installed in it. Because the vast majority of pilgrims to the site were Christian, as a ...
The Church of the Pater Noster (French: Église du Pater Noster) is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. It is part of a Carmelite monastery, also known as the Sanctuary of the Eleona. The Church of the Pater Noster stands next to the ruins of the 4th-century Byzantine Church of Eleona. The ruins of the Eleona ...
At-Tur [1] (Arabic: الطور, aṭ-ṭūr; meaning: The Mount) is the 52nd chapter of the Quran with 49 verses . The surah opens with the oath of Allah swearing by the Mount, [2] which some believe is Mount Sinai, where the Tawrat was revealed to Musa. The chapter takes its name from "the mount" (ṭūr) mentioned in verse 1.
The House of Lights) is a Jewish neighborhood on the northern ridge on the Mount of Olives, in East Jerusalem, near the Augusta Victoria Hospital and the Palestinian neighbourhood of At-Tur. [1] [2] The Irving Moskowitz Yeshiva & Campus, a Religious Zionist Hesder yeshiva is the nucleus of the neighborhood. [3]
Emek Tzurim National Park is located on the lower western slope of the Mount of Olives and Mount Scopus and the upper reaches of the Kidron Valley. It abuts the neighborhoods of Wadi al-Joz, At-Tur and Beit Orot, as well as the campus of Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center.
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem: Coordinates ... The Hotel 7 Arches Jerusalem is a hotel in East Jerusalem in the Arab neighborhood of at-Tur on the Mount of Olives. The ...