List of places in Jerusalem

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

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

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

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

Caves, tunnels and quarries

• 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

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

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

Government institutions

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

Educational institutions

Universities and colleges

• 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

Christian

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 – 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
• 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" Coptic Monastery – Coptic Orthodox, contested by the Ethiopians
• Saint Mark Monastery Of Jerusalem – Syriac Orthodox
• St. Toros Church – Armenian Apostolic

Protestant

• Christ 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 ( and , 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

• 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

• 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

See also

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

References

External links

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