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3 days ago · The Old City of Jerusalem is a walled quadrilateral about 3,000 feet (900 meters) long on each side. It is both ancient and diverse, with an Armenian quarter, a Christian quarter, a Muslim quarter, and a Jewish quarter.
1 day ago · "History is being revived in the Jewish Quarter," proclaimed Herzel Ben Ari, CEO of The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter. "This renovated museum offers a window into Jerusalem's majestic past during the Second Temple era. I invite all to visit and connect with the city's magnificent heritage."
May 22, 2024 · As Matthew Teller says in his groundbreaking 2022 book Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City, the concept of four quarters was arbitrarily imposed by British cartographers in 1841. In reality, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived intermingled until the riots of 1929 and 1936.
2 days ago · The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is considered to be the holiest site for Christians in the world and has been the most important pilgrimage site for Christians since the fourth century .
2 days ago · A picture shows the Armenian car park in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 13, 2023. When bulldozers rolled into Jerusalem's Old City to start work on an Israeli settlement that would build a luxury hotel atop a fourth of the historic Armenian quarter, residents rapidly mobilized. - AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images
May 10, 2024 · Gains from the civil war that had allowed Israel to protect the Jewish communities in Jerusalem were threatened by Arab advances, and on May 28 the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City was taken by Transjordan’s armed forces (the Arab Legion) and left in rubble. Despite attempts by the Arab Legion to block Israeli supply lines to west ...
May 23, 2024 · Of the entire retaining wall, the section ritually used by Jews now faces a large plaza in the Jewish Quarter, near the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount, while the rest of the wall is concealed behind structures in the Muslim Quarter, with the small exception of an 8-metre (26 ft) section, the so-called "Little Western Wall" or "Small ...
