THE CITY BEYOND THE WALLS

The city of Jerusalem consisted of ONLY the walled city until the second half of the 19th century. In the 1850s, the first construction outside the Old City was begun. Bishop Gobat had a school erected on Mt. Zion, and shortly thereafter, the Russian Orthodox Church built a vast pilgrim hospice compound to the North of the Old City. This was followed by other nation's churches building similar structures for their own pilgrims to the Holy Land for the remainder of the 19th century. The first neighborhood outside the Old City was built in 1860. By 1897, forty-six neighborhoods had been built outside the walls. Although the majority of Jerusalem's Jews still lived inside the walled city, by the turn of the century, that would all change.

THE OLD CITY

Ancient Jerusalem
The Western Wall
The Herodian Quarter
The Cardo
The Citadel
Ophel Excavations
Broad Wall
Burnt House
Western Wall Tunnels

Synagogues
The Ramban Synagogue
The Hurva Synagogue
The 4 Sephardic Synagogues
The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue