List of places in Jerusalem
This article lists significant public places in the city of Jerusalem.
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Neighborhoods
Major thoroughfares
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Begin Expressway with noise barriers
- 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
Landmarks
Chords Bridge
- American Colony
- Begin Center
- Chords Bridge
- David's Citadel
- Jerusalem YMCA[1]
- Jerusalem War Memorial
- Montefiore Windmill
- Mormon University, Mt. Scopus
- Russian Compound
- Safra Square
- Tolerance Monument
- Yad Kennedy
- Yad Vashem
- Teddy Fountain
Parks
The Golem, known as "the Monster"
Gan Hapaamon (Liberty Bell Garden)
- 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
Ancient tombs
Tomb of Zechariah
Caves, tunnels and quarries
Museums
Rockefeller Museum
Yad Vashem
- Israel Museum – the national museum of Israel
- 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
Hospitals
- ALYN Hospital Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center[2]
- Augusta Victoria Hospital
- Bikur Cholim Hospital[3]
- Hadassah hospital (Mount Scopus)
- Hadassah hospital (Ein Kerem)
- Herzog Hospital (Ezrat Nashim)[4]
- Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center
- Misgav Ladach (now a Kupat Holim diagnostic center)
- Al-Quds University Hospital (Al-Maqasid)
- Shaare Zedek Medical Center[5]
- St. John Ophthalmic Hospital[6]
- St. Joseph Hospital
- French Hospice
Hotels
King David Hotel
Prima Kings Hotel
- 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
Government institutions
Israel Supreme Court
- Bank of Israel
- Knesset – the Israeli parliament
- Supreme Court of Israel
Educational institutions
Universities and colleges
Hebrew University Jerusalem IL WV
- Al-Quds University
- Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
- Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center – the Mormon U.
- 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
- Yeshivat Torat Shraga
Religious sites
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
- Well of Souls or Holy of Holies, the cave under the Dome of the Rock
Jewish
Christian
Church of All Nations near Mount of Olives in Jerusalem
Multiple denominational
Catholic (Roman and Eastern)
- Annunciation Cathedral – Melkite Greek Catholic
- Christ Church
- 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 – 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 St. James – Armenian Apostolic
- Church of the Holy Archangels – Armenian Apostolic
- Ethiopian Church – Ethiopian Orthodox
- "Deir es-Sultan" Ethiopian Monastery – Ethiopian Orthodox, contested by the Copts
- Saint Mark Monastery Of Jerusalem – Syriac Orthodox
- St. Toros Church – Armenian Apostolic
Protestant
- Church of the Ascension 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
Islamic
The Dome of the Rock, seen through the Cotton Merchants' Gate (Bab al-Qattanin)
- Haram ash-Sharif (Temple Mount)
- Al-Aqsa Mosque
- Dome of the Rock
- Well of Souls or Holy of Holies, the cave under the Dome of the Rock
- Dome of the Chain
- 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 [9]
- Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery[9]
- 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
- List of East Jerusalem locations
- List of Jerusalem embassies
- List of mosques in Jerusalem
- The Old City gates, an overview
References
- Jerusalem International YMCA – Architecture: the building
- Alyn Hospital Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Bikur Cholim Hospital Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Herzog Hospital web site
- Shaare zedek Hospital
- The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
- The Jerusalem College of Engineering Archived 2007-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
- About the Jerusalem College of Technology Archived 2008-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Rosoff, David (2005). קדושים אשר בארץ Kedoshim Asher Baarets. Otsar Hatorah Institute.
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