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List of places in Jerusalem

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List of places in Jerusalem

Summary

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

Neighborhoods

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 File:Begin road (Jerusalem).JPG|Begin Expressway with noise barriers File:EmekRefaimStreetJerusalemFeb102023 17.jpg|Emek Refaim street, Jerusalem

Landmarks

  • American Colony
  • Menachem Begin Heritage Center
  • Chords Bridge
  • David's Citadel
  • Jerusalem YMCA
  • Jerusalem War Cemetery
  • Montefiore Windmill
  • Mormon University, Mt. Scopus
  • Russian Compound
  • Safra Square
  • Tolerance Monument
  • Yad Kennedy
  • Yad Vashem
  • Teddy Fountain File:Tram1660.JPG|Chords Bridge File:ToleranceMonumentMar012022.jpg|Tolerance Monument File:YadKennedyApr142022.jpg|Yad Kennedy in sunset File:JerusalemWarCemeteryWorldWarINov102022 03.jpg|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 File:HaMifletzetGardenNov102022 01.jpg|The Golem, known as "the Monster" File:BarlevEshkolJunctionDec122022 02.jpg|Ammunition Hill File:GanPaamonHaDerorSkateparkDec122022 01.jpg|Skatepark in Liberty Bell Park File:ArmonHanatzivPromenadeMar022022 12.jpg|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 File:Zetomb.JPG|Tomb of Zechariah File:Souvenirs d'Orient, 1878 by Félix Bonfils 0130-2.jpg|David's Tomb File:The Garden Tomb 2008.jpg|Garden Tomb File:Church of the Holy Sepulchre by Gerd Eichmann (cropped).jpg|Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Caves, tunnels and quarries

  • Siloam Tunnel
  • Warren's Shaft
  • Zedekiah's Cave File:Siloam22.jpg|Siloam Tunnel File:City of david - Warren's shaft Pir IMG 4894.jpg|Warren's Shaft File:Jerusalem Zedekia-Höhle 22.JPG|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 File:Rockefeller Tower Jerusalem.jpg|Rockefeller Museum Image:Yad Vashem entrance.jpg|Yad Vashem File:Billy Rose Art Garden (14755133799).jpg|Shrine of the Book

Hospitals

  • ALYN Hospital Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center
  • Augusta Victoria Hospital
  • Bikur Cholim Hospital
  • Hadassah Medical Center (Hadassah hospital), Mount Scopus
  • Hadassah Medical Center (Hadassah hospital), Ein Kerem
  • Herzog Hospital (Ezrat Nashim)
  • 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
  • St. John Ophthalmic Hospital
  • St. Joseph Hospital
  • French Hospice File:Saint-Louis Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel 04.jpg|Saint Louis Hospital, Jerusalem Image:ALYN hospital.JPG|ALYN Hospital File:HadassahUniversityHospitalMtScopusNov102022.jpg|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 Image:King David Hotel from garden side. 1934-1939.jpg|King David Hotel Image:Jerusalem Fontaine Wallace Place de France.jpg|Prima Kings hotel File:AmericanColony.jpg|American Colony, Jerusalem

Government institutions

  • Bank of Israel
  • Knesset – the Israeli parliament
  • Supreme Court of Israel Image:SupremeCourtIsrael ST 06.jpg|Supreme Court of Israel File:BankIsrael01 ST 06.jpg|Bank of Israel File:KnessetBuildingNov152022.jpg|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
  • Jerusalem College of Technology
  • 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

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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
  • Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery
  • 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

References

References

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  4. [http://www.herzoghospital.org/ Herzog Hospital web site]
  5. "Shaare zedek Hospital".
  6. [http://www.saintjohn.org/ The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem]
  7. [http://jceen.pionet.com/ The Jerusalem College of Engineering] {{webarchive. link. (2007-02-16)
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  10. Rosoff, David. (2005). "קדושים אשר בארץ ''Kedoshim Asher Baarets''". Otsar Hatorah Institute.
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