Sehenswürdigkeiten in Israel

Or Zaruah

The Or Zaruaa Synagogue, Nachlaot, Jerusalem- Hebrew: בית כנסת אור זרוע, נחלאות, ירושלים‎ was founded in 1926 (5687 Jewish Calendar) by Rabbi Amram Aburbeh for the Ma’araviim Jewish congregation in Jerusalem.

Navon Bey House

St. George's Cathedral

St. George's Cathedral is an Anglican (Episcopal) cathedral in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, established in 1899. It became the seat of the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, having taken the title from Christ Church, Jerusalem, built 50 years before.It is loca…

Bikur Holim Hospital

Bikur Cholim Hospital (Hebrew: בית החולים ביקור חולים‎) is a 200-bed general hospital in West Jerusalem established in the 19th century. It is the oldest hospital in the country still operating.Bikur Cholim is known for its obstetrics and cardiac departments.

Mission of Saint Sergius of Jerusalem

The Mission of Saint Sergius or Guest House of Saint Sergius is a building built in Jerusalem in 1890 by the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, thanks to the grants of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. It is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem.

Russian Compound in Jerusalem

The Russian Compound (Hebrew: מִגְרַשׁ הָרוּסִים‎, Migraš ha-Rusim, Arabic: المسكوبية‎, al-Muskubīya, Russian: Русское подворье в Иерусалиме) is one of the oldest districts in central Jerusalem, featuring a large Russian Orthodox church and s…

Beit Aghion

Beit Aghion (Hebrew: בית אגיון‎), also known as Beit Rosh HaMemshala (בית ראש הממשלה‎, lit. House of the Prime Minister) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Israel.

Church of the Flagellation

The Church of the Flagellation is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near St. Stephen's, or Lions, Gate.

Church of the Condemnation

The Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross (Hebrew: קפלת ההרשעה וכפיית הצלב) is a Roman Catholic church located within the Franciscan compound that also contains the Church of the Flagellation in the old city of Jerusalem.

Convent of the Sisters of Zion

The Convent of the Sisters of Zion is a Roman Catholic convent of the Congregation of Notre-Dame de Sion, located near the eastern end of the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem. The convent was built in 1857 by Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne.

Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Latin: Patriarchatus Latinus Hierosolymitanus) is the Latin Catholic ecclesiastical patriarchate in Jerusalem, officially seated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tabor House

Tabor House (Beit Tavor in Hebrew) is a landmark building in Jerusalem, Israel.Tabor House was built in 1882 by archaeologist, missionary and architect Conrad Schick as a home for his family. The building is located at 58 Street of the Prophets.

National Institutions House

The National Institutions Building is located in downtown Jerusalem, on King George Street. The structure was built for the national Zionist institutions—the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, amongst others—and became a symbol of the Jewish state prior to Israel's establishment.

Trinity

The Holy Trinity Cathedral (Russian: Свято-Троицкий собор, Hebrew: קתדרלת השילוש הקדוש) is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, located at the heart of the so-called Russian Compound in central Jerusalem.

Asirei HaMahtarot

Museum of Underground Prisoners is a museum in Jerusalem, commemorating the activity of the Jewish underground—Haganah, Irgun and Lehi—during the period leading up the establishment of the State of Israel.

Jerusalem Historical City Hall Building

Jerusalem's old town hall was one of the four public buildings constructed in Jerusalem by the British administration during the British Mandate after the previous town hall, located at the corner of Jaffa and Mamilla streets, had become insufficient for the needs of the burgeoning city and its Mand…

Church of Our Lady of the Spasm

The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (Hebrew: כנסיית גבירתנו הדואבת‎), or the Church of Sorrows of Mary also called the Armenian Chapel of Our Lady of the Spasm, is an Armenian Catholic church building in the Old City of Jerusalem erected in 1881.Located at the fourth station on th…

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Al-Aqsa Mosque (Arabic: ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلْأَقْصَىٰ‎, romanized: al-Masjid al-ʾAqṣā, IPA: [ʔælˈmæsdʒɪd ælˈʔɑqsˤɑ] (listen), "the Farthest Mosque"), located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is the third holiest site in Islam.

Muristan

The Muristan (Hebrew: מוריסטן‎, Arabic: مورستان‎) is a complex of streets and shops in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The site was the location of the first Bimaristan (from Persian Bimārestān بیمارستان meaning "hospital") of the Knights Hospitaller.

Consulate General of France in Jerusalem

The Consulate General of France in Jerusalem (French: Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem) began its tumultuous history in the early 17th century.

Tower of David

The Tower of David (Hebrew: מגדל דוד‎, romanized: Migdál Davíd), also known as the Citadel (Arabic: القلعة‎, romanized: al-Qala'a), is an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem.

Saint Andrews

St Andrew's Church, also known as the Scots Memorial Church, is a church in Jerusalem built as a memorial to the Scottish soldiers who were killed fighting the Turkish Army during World War I, bringing to an end Ottoman rule over Palestine.

Walls of Jerusalem

The Walls of Jerusalem (Hebrew: חומות ירושלים‎, Arabic: أسوار القدس‎) surround the Old City of Jerusalem (approx. 1 km²). In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman I ordered the ruined city walls to be rebuilt.

Aceldama (Field of blood)

Akeldama (Aramaic: חקל דמא or 𐡇𐡒𐡋 𐡃𐡌𐡀 Ḥaqel D'ma, "field of blood"; Hebrew: חקל דמא; Arabic: حقل الدم, Ḥaqel Ad-dam) is the Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus.

Church of the Redeemer

The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (Hebrew: כנסיית הגואל‎, Arabic: الكنيسة اللوثرية في القدس‎, German: Erlöserkirche) is the second Protestant church in Jerusalem (the first being Christ Church near Jaffa Gate).

Burnt House

The Burnt House Museum (aka Katros House) is a museum presenting an excavated house from the Second Temple period situated six metres below current street level in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.The Burnt House is believed to have been set on fire during the Roman destruction of Jer…

Rockefeller Restaurant

The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum ("PAM"; 1938-1967), is an archaeology museum located in East Jerusalem that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in Mandatory Palestine, in the 1920s and 1930s.The museum is un…

St. Peter of Gallicantu

Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu is a Roman Catholic church located on the eastern slope of Mount Zion, just outside the Old (walled) City of Jerusalem.The church takes its name from the Latin word "Gallicantu", meaning cock's-crow.

Dormition Abbey

Abbey of the Dormition is an abbey and the name of a Benedictine community in Jerusalem on Mount Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate.Between 1998 and 2006 the community was known as the Abbey of Hagia Maria Sion, in reference to the basilica of Hagia Sion that stood on thi…