List of places in Jerusalem

This article lists significant public places in the city of Jerusalem.

Neighborhoods

Abu Tor at-Tur Arnona (Old Talpiot) Ar-Ram Atarot Bab a-Zahara Baka Batei Munkacs Batei Saidoff Batei Ungarin Bayit VeGan Beit HaKerem Beit Hanina Beit Safafa Beit Yisrael Bukharim East Talpiot (Armon Hanetziv) Ein Kerem Etz Chaim Ezrat Torah Ezrat Yisrael French Hill German Colony Geula Gilo Givat Masua Givat Oranim Givat HaMatos Givat HaVradim

Givat Mordechai Givat Ram Givat Shapira (French Hill) Givat Shaul Greek Colony Har Homa Har Nof Ir David Ir Ganim Al-Issawiya Jabel Mukaber Har Hazeitim Katamon (Old Katamon) Kerem Avraham Kiryat Belz Kiryat Hayovel Kiryat Mattersdorf Kiryat Menachem Kiryat Moshe Kiryat Sanz Kiryat Shmuel Kiryat Wolfson Machane Yehuda Machane Yisrael Malha Mamilla Mazkeret Moshe Meah Shearim Mekor Baruch

Mekor Chaim Mishkenot Sha'ananim Motza Mount Scopus Mount of Olives Mount Zion Musrara Nachlaot Nahalat Shiva Neve Granot Neve Sha'anan Neve Yaakov Nayot Old City Armenian Quarter Christian Quarter The Muristan Jewish Quarter The Cardo Moroccan Quarter Muslim Quarter Pat Pisgat Ze'ev Ramat Denya Ramat Sharett Ramat Shlomo

Ramot Ramot Polin Ramot Eshkol Rassco Rehavia Romema Russian Compound San Simon Sanhedria Sanhedria Murchevet Sheikh Jarrah Shmuel HaNavi Shuafat Silwan Sur Baher Talbiya Talpiot Tel Arza Umm Tuba Unsdorf Wadi al-Joz Yefeh Nof Yemin Moshe Zichron Moshe Zichron Yosef

Major thoroughfares

• Bethlehem Road (part of Highway 60)
• Hebron Road-King David Street-Bar-Lev Boulevard
• Begin Expressway
• Ben Yehuda Street
• Emek Refaim Street
• Golomb-Herzog-Ben-Zvi Boulevard
• Herzl Boulevard
• Jaffa Road
• King George Street
• Gaza Street
• Keren HaYesod Street
• Yigael Yadin Boulevard

• 
  Begin Expressway with noise barriers
• 
  Emek Refaim street, Jerusalem

Landmarks

• American Colony
• Menachem Begin Heritage Center
• Chords Bridge
• David's Citadel
• Jerusalem YMCA ^[1]
• Jerusalem War Cemetery
• Montefiore Windmill
• Mormon University, Mt. Scopus
• Russian Compound
• Safra Square
• Tolerance Monument
• Yad Kennedy
• Yad Vashem
• Teddy Fountain

• 
  Chords Bridge
• 
  Tolerance Monument
• 
  Yad Kennedy in sunset
• 
  Jerusalem War Cemetery

Parks

• Ammunition Hill
• Independence Park
• Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
• Gilo Park
• HaMifletzet Park (Monster Park) with Niki de Saint Phalle's Golem
• Liberty Bell Park
• Nayot Park
• Peace Forest
• Ramat Denya Park
• Sacher Park
• Sherover Promenade
• Train Track Park
• Valley of the Cross
• Wohl Rose Garden

• 
  The Golem, known as "the Monster"
• 
  Ammunition Hill
• 
  Skatepark in Liberty Bell Park
• 
  Sherover Promenade

Ancient tombs

• Cave of the Ramban
• David's Tomb
• Garden Tomb
• Herod Family Tomb
• Holy Sepulchre
• Jason's Tomb
• Tomb of Absalom
• Tomb of Simeon the Just
• Tomb of the Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi
• Tomb of the Virgin Mary
• Tomb of Zechariah
• Tombs of the Kings
• Tombs of the Sanhedrin

• 
  Tomb of Zechariah
• 
  David's Tomb
• 
  Garden Tomb
• 
  Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Caves, tunnels and quarries

• Siloam Tunnel
• Warren's Shaft
• Zedekiah's Cave

• 
  Siloam Tunnel
• 
  Warren's Shaft
• 
  Zedekiah's Cave

Museums

• Israel Museum – the national museum of Israel
  • Shrine of the Book
• Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
• Bloomfield Science Museum
• Herzl Museum
• Jerusalem Tax Museum
• L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art
• Museum on the Seam
• Museum of Italian Jewish Art
• Natural History Museum
• Rockefeller Museum of Archeology; now administered as part of the Israel Museum
• Siebenberg House – private archaeology museum in the Old City
• Ticho House; now administered as part of the Israel Museum
• Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem
• Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

• 
  Rockefeller Museum
• 
  Yad Vashem
• 
  Shrine of the Book

Hospitals

• ALYN Hospital Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center ^[2]
• Augusta Victoria Hospital
• Bikur Cholim Hospital ^[3]
• Hadassah Medical Center (Hadassah hospital), Mount Scopus
• Hadassah Medical Center (Hadassah hospital), Ein Kerem
• Herzog Hospital (Ezrat Nashim) ^[4]
• Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center
• Misgav Ladach (now a Kupat Holim diagnostic center)
• Makassed Hospital (al-Maqasid; al-Quds University Hospital)
• Shaare Zedek Medical Center ^[5]
• St. John Ophthalmic Hospital ^[6]
• St. Joseph Hospital
• French Hospice

• 
  Saint Louis Hospital, Jerusalem
• 
  ALYN Hospital
• 
  Hadassah Medical Center (Hadassah hospital), Mount Scopus

Hotels

• Agripas Boutique Hotel
• American Colony Hotel
• Mount of Olives Hotel
• King David Hotel
• David Citadel Hotel
• Jerusalem Gate Hotel
• Jerusalem Plaza Hotel
• Inbal Hotel
• Jerusalem Pearl Hotel
• Three Arches Hotel
• Mount Zion Hotel
• Ramada Renaissance Hotel
• Little House in Bakah
• Scottish Guesthouse
• Prima Royale hotel
• Prima Kings hotel
• Dan Panorama Hotel
• Ramat Rachel Hotel
• Seven Arches Hotel
• The Olive Tree Hotel
• Lev Yerushalayim Hotel

• 
  King David Hotel
• 
  Prima Kings hotel
• 
  American Colony, Jerusalem

Government institutions

• Bank of Israel
• Knesset – the Israeli parliament
• Supreme Court of Israel

• 
  Supreme Court of Israel
• 
  Bank of Israel
• 
  Knesset

Educational institutions

Universities and colleges

Hebrew University Jerusalem IL WV

• Al-Quds University
• Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
• Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center - University owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Jerusalem College of Engineering ^[7]
• Jerusalem College of Technology ^[8]
• L'Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise
• David Yellin Teachers' College
• Emuna College
• Hadassah School of Medicine
• Hadassah College
• Hebrew Union College

Yeshivas

• Ateret Cohanim
• Beit El Synagogue, for Sephardi students of Kabbalah
• Brisk yeshivas
• Conservative Yeshiva
• Kol Torah Yeshiva
• Lakewood East (Israeli branch of Lakewood yeshiva)
• Mercaz HaRav
• Mirrer Yeshiva
• Porat Yosef Yeshiva
• Pressburg Yeshiva
• Sfas Emes Yeshiva
• Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva, for Ashkenazi students of Kabbalah
• Torah Ore
• Toldot Yeshurun-Yeshiva for Russian Speakers
• Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi
• Yeshivat HaKotel

Religious sites

In ruins

• Church of St. Mary of the Germans
• Nea Ekklesia of the Theotokos

Multiple religions

• Chapel of the Ascension – part of a mosque, but venerated by most Christian denominations
• Mount Zion
  • Cenacle – now state property, not part of any church
• Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa Compound
  • Well of Souls or Holy of Holies, the cave under the Dome of the Rock

Jewish

Main article: Synagogues of Jerusalem

Christian

Main article: List of church buildings in Jerusalem

Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter: Jerusalem is generally considered the cradle of Christianity.

Church of All Nations near Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

Multiple denominational

• Church of the Holy Sepulchre
• Tomb of the Virgin Mary

Catholic (Roman and Eastern)

• Annunciation Cathedral – Melkite Greek Catholic
• Church of All Nations or of Agony, Gethsemane
• Church of Bethphage
• Church of Our Lady of the Spasm – Armenian Catholic
• Church of St. John the Baptist (Ein Karem, Jerusalem)
• Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu
• Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross
• Church of the Flagellation
• Church of the Pater Noster
• 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)
• St. Thomas Church or Cathedral – Syriac Catholic
• St. Vincent de Paul Chapel, Jerusalem
• Via Dolorosa

Eastern Orthodox

Church of Maria Magdalene

• Church of Maria Magdalene – Russian Orthodox
• Church of St Alexander Nevsky – Russian Orthodox
• Holy Trinity Cathedral in the Russian Compound – Russian Orthodox
• Monastery of the Cross – Greek Orthodox
• Romanian Orthodox Church, part of the Romanian Patriarchy's Representation to the Holy Places
• Convent of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, with the Church of the Ascension and the Church of the Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist – Russian Orthodox
• St John the Baptist Church – Greek Orthodox
• St. Symeon of Katamonas, church and convent – Greek Orthodox

Oriental Orthodox

Cathedral of Saint James, Jerusalem

• Cathedral of St. James – Armenian Apostolic
• Church of the Holy Archangels – Armenian Apostolic
• Ethiopian Church – Ethiopian Orthodox
• "Deir es-Sultan" Coptic Monastery – Coptic Orthodox, contested by the Ethiopians
• Saint Mark Monastery Of Jerusalem – Syriac Orthodox
• St. Toros Church – Armenian Apostolic

Protestant

Christ Church, Jerusalem

• Christ Church
• Ascension Church at the German Augusta Victoria Foundation – Evangelical Church in Germany
• Lutheran Church of the Redeemer – Evangelical Church in Germany
• St. George's Cathedral – Anglican
• St Andrew's, aka the Scottish Church – Church of Scotland.
• The Garden Tomb – non-denominational, but popular with Evangelicals, Anglicans and other Protestants

Pilgrim hostels

• Austrian Hospice on Via Dolorosa
• Polish House "Dom Polski", nunneries with pilgrim hostels run by Polish Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (Old and New, Polish articles), Old City and Homa haShlishit ('Third Wall') Street
• Romanian Orthodox Mission to the Holy Land, Homa haShlishit ('Third Wall') Street
• Russian Compound: several former pilgrim hostels

Islamic

The Dome of the Rock, seen through the Cotton Merchants' Gate (Bab al-Qattanin)

• Haram ash-Sharif (Temple Mount)
  • Jami al-Aqsa
  • Dome of the Rock
    • Well of Souls or Holy of Holies, the cave under the Dome of the Rock
  • Dome of the Chain
  • Fountain of Qayt Bay
  • Madrasa al-Ashrafiyya
• Al-Khanqah al-Salahiyya Mosque
• Al-Yaqubi Mosque – the Crusader Church of St. James Intercisus, transformed after 1187 into a mosque
• Mosque of Omar, next to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Cemeteries

Multi-religious

• Indian War Cemetery, Talpiot
• Jerusalem British War Cemetery
• Mount Herzl National Cemetery – civilian and military
• Tabachnik Garden on Mt Scopus: the main American Colony Cemetery (Protestant) and Bentwich Cemetery (Jewish)

Jewish

Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery

• Har HaMenuchot, Givat Shaul ^[10]
• Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery ^[10]
• Sanhedria Cemetery
• Sheikh Badr Jewish Cemetery

Christian

• Mount Zion cemeteries:
  • Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery
  • other cemeteries on Mount Zion: Armenian Apostolic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Muslim
• Templer Cemetery, Emek Refaim

Muslim

• Bab Sitni Mariam Cemetery – Muslim cemetery next to Lions' Gate

See also

• Israel portal

• List of East Jerusalem locations
• List of Jerusalem embassies
• List of mosques in Jerusalem
• The Old City gates, an overview

References

1. Jerusalem International YMCA – Architecture: the building
2. Alyn Hospital Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
3. Bikur Cholim Hospital Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
4. Herzog Hospital web site
5. "Shaare zedek Hospital". Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. Retrieved 2006-06-27.
6. The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
7. The Jerusalem College of Engineering Archived 2007-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
8. About the Jerusalem College of Technology Archived 2008-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
9. Beckles Willson, Rachel (2013). Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN   9781107036567.
10. Rosoff, David (2005). קדושים אשר בארץ Kedoshim Asher Baarets. Otsar Hatorah Institute.

External links

• Places in Jerusalem through an Artist's Eyes – Kosinski