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Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem)

One of the four traditional quarters of Jerusalem's Old City

One of the four traditional quarters of Jerusalem's Old City

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nameMuslim Quarter
native_nameحارة المسلمين
native_name_langar
other_nameהרובע המוסלמי
settlement_typeQuarter
image_skylineSukAlKatanin.JPG
imagesize250px
image_captionCotton market, reconstructed in 1336 by the Mamluk ruler Emir Tankiz, governor of Damascus
pushpin_mapOld Jerusalem
pushpin_label_positionright
coordinates
subdivision_type1City
subdivision_name1Old City of Jerusalem
subdivision_type2Quarter
subdivision_name2Muslim Quarter
area_total_km20.31
population_total22,000
population_density_km270,968
module[[File:Jerusalem Muslim Quarter map.jpg250px]]

The Muslim Quarter (; ) is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem. It covers 31 ha of the northeastern sector of the Old City. The quarter is the largest and most populous of the four quarters and extends from the Lions' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Damascus Gate—Western Wall route in the west. The Via Dolorosa starts in this quarter, a path Jesus had to take when he was forced by Roman soldiers, on his way to his crucifixion. The population of the Muslim Quarter was reported in 2012 as 22,000.

Boundaries

The Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem is bordered by the Christian Quarter to the west, the Jewish Quarter to the south, and the Armenian Quarter to the southwest. The old city walls border the Quarter from the north.

The convention of a "Muslim Quarter", in what was then a Muslim-majority city, may have originated in its current form in the 1841 British Royal Engineers map of Jerusalem, or at least Reverend George Williams' subsequent labelling of it. The city had previously been divided into many more harat (: "quarters", "neighborhoods", "districts" or "areas", see wikt:حارة). The city had previously been considered in sections relating to a much wider range of medieval groups. From the mid-19th century onwards, with the influx of Jewish immigrants, the areas of the city inhabited by Muslims began to decrease.

The table below shows the evolution of the area today known as the "Muslim Quarter", from 1495 up until the modern system:

Local divisionsWestern divisionsDate14951500s1800s19001840s onwardsSourceMujir al-DinOttoman CensusTraditional systemOttoman CensusModern mapsQuarters
Ghuriyya (Turiyya)Bab el-AsbatMuslim Quarter (north)North-east
Bab HuttaBab HuttaBab HuttaBab Hutta
Masharqa
Bani ZaydBani ZaydSa'diyyaSa'diyyaNorth-west
Bab el-'AmudBab el-'AmudBab el-'AmudBab el-'Amud
Bani Murra
MarzabanBab el-QattaninBab es-SilsilaWadMuslim Quarter (south)South
Qattanin
Aqabet es-SittaWad
'Aqabet et-Takiya

History

The Muslim Quarter had a mixed population of Jews, Muslims and Christians until the 1929 Palestine riots.

Some 60 Jewish families now live in the Muslim Quarter. Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim is the largest yeshiva.

In 2007, the Israeli government started funding the construction of The Flowers Gate development plan, the first Jewish settlement inside the Muslim Quarter since 1967. It would include 20 apartments and a synagogue.

Landmarks

Jewish landmarks include the Kotel Katan or Little Western Wall, and the Western Wall Tunnels, which run below the neighborhood along the Western Wall. There are many Roman and Crusader remains in the quarter. The first seven Stations of the Cross on Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross) are located there.

References

References

  1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cSuErBFmykQC The Holy Land], pg. 29.(This area excludes the [[Temple Mount]] which measures 35 acres)
  2. [http://www.rc.net/wcc/israel/muslmqtr.htm Muslim Quarter of the "Old City" section of Jerusalem] {{webarchive. link. (2012-12-20)
  3. Teller, Matthew. (2022). "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City". [[Profile Books]].
  4. Teller, Matthew. (2022). "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City". [[Profile Books]].
  5. Arnon, Adar. (1992). "The Quarters of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Period". Taylor & Francis, Ltd..
  6. Arnon, Adar. (1992). "The Quarters of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Period". Taylor & Francis, Ltd..
  7. Arnon, Adar. (1992). "The Quarters of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Period". Taylor & Francis, Ltd..
  8. (11 March 2008). "Israel cements ownership of Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City". Haaretz.
  9. "Archived copy".
  10. [https://www.ateret.org.il/english/about/yeshiva-history.asp The Yeshiva's History] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-12-09 - Retrieved 18 September 2014)
  11. Wilson, Scott. (11 February 2007). "Jewish Inroads in Muslim Quarter". [[The Washington Post]].
  12. [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Jerusalem2.html#Cross Jerusalem - The Old City]
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