Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Jerusalem, Israel

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Number of sights 23 sights
Distance 8.9 km
Ascend 200 m
Descend 191 m

Experience Jerusalem in Israel in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in JerusalemIndividual Sights in Jerusalem

Sight 1: Holyland Model of Jerusalem

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Holyland Model of Jerusalem

The Holyland Model of Jerusalem, also known as Model of Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period is a 1:50 scale model of the city of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period. The model, designed by Michael Avi-Yonah, was moved from its original location at the Holyland Hotel in Bayit VeGan, Jerusalem, to a new site at the Israel Museum in June 2006.

Wikipedia: Holyland Model of Jerusalem (EN), Website

325 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Shrine of the Book

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The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, among others.

Wikipedia: Shrine of the Book (EN), Website

933 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Monastery of the Cross

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The Monastery of the Cross is an Eastern Orthodox monastery near the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem. It is located in the Valley of the Cross, below the Israel Museum and the Knesset.

Wikipedia: Monastery of the Cross (EN)

1032 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: Jason's Tomb

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Jason's TombNeta / Attribution

Jason's Tomb is a rock-cut tomb dating to the first century BCE in the Hasmonean period, discovered in the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. It has been identified as the burial site of a certain Jason, possibly a naval commander, based on the charcoal drawing of two warships discovered in the cave.

Wikipedia: Jason's Tomb (EN)

796 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: Ratisbonne Monastery

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Ratisbonne Monastery is a monastery in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel, established by Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, a French convert from Judaism. Work on the building, designed by the French architect M. Daumat, began in 1874 on a barren hill, now in the center of West Jerusalem.

Wikipedia: Ratisbonne Monastery (EN)

385 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Great Synagogue

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Great Synagogue Ariel Horowitz / CC BY 2.5

The Jerusalem Great Synagogue, is located at 56 King George Street, Jerusalem.

Wikipedia: Great Synagogue (Jerusalem) (EN), Website

626 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 7: Mamilla Pool

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Mamilla Pool

Mamilla Pool is one of several ancient reservoirs that supplied water to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is located outside the walls of the Old City about 650 metres (710 yd) northwest of Jaffa Gate in the centre of the Mamilla Cemetery. With a capacity of 30,000 cubic metres, it is connected by an underground channel to Hezekiah's Pool in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. It was thought as possible that it has received water via the so-called Upper or High-Level Aqueduct from Solomon's Pools, but 2010 excavations have discovered the aqueduct's final segment at a much lower elevation near the Jaffa Gate, making it impossible to function as a feeding source for the Mamilla Pool.

Wikipedia: Mamilla Pool (EN)

624 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Chapelle Saint Vincent de Paul

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Chapelle Saint Vincent de Paul ד"ר אבישי טייכר / CC BY 2.5

The St. Vincent de Paul Chapel is a Catholic chapel that serves the Hospice of St. Vincent de Paul in Jerusalem. It is dedicated to the founder of the Daughters of Charity who also run a hospital and an adjoining nursery. This is one of the largest Catholic churches in the city. The sisters are present in the Holy Land since 1884.

Wikipedia: Chapel of Saint Vincent de Paul, Jerusalem (EN)

470 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Saint Saviours Church

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The Monastery of Saint Saviour is a Catholic Franciscan monastery located on 1 Saint Francis Street, east of the New Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site was purchased from the Georgian Orthodox Church in 1560 with permission of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire, and the monastery was constructed in stages. The church building was erected in 1885, with renovation in 1985. The site includes a printing press, an organ workshop, a library and a Catholic school.

Wikipedia: Monastery of Saint Saviour (EN)

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Hizkyahu’s Pool

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Hezekiah's Pool, or the Patriarch's Pool, located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was once a reservoir forming part of the city's ancient water system.

Wikipedia: Hezekiah's Pool (EN)

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Mosque of Omar

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The Ayyubid Mosque of Omar is an Islamic place of worship inside the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Muristan area of the Christian Quarter. The mosque is not open to tourists, and can be accessed only for praying.

Wikipedia: Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem) (EN)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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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 the holiest site in Christianity in the world and has been the most important pilgrimage site for Christians since the fourth century.

Wikipedia: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (EN)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Alexander Compound

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The Alexanderhof is a historic building complex of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society with currently unclear ownership in the Christian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Wikipedia: Alexanderhof (Jerusalem) (DE)

38 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Alexander Nevsky Church

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The Alexander Nevsky Church is a church in the Alexander Courtyard of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in the Christian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Wikipedia: Alexander-Newski-Kirche (Jerusalem) (DE)

298 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Shuvu Banim Yeshiva

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Shuvu Banim is a yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem with 1,500 students. It was founded in 1978 in Bnei Brak by Rabbi Eliezer Berland, a convicted sex offender and fraudster who is still the rosh yeshiva. The yeshiva was declared a cult by The Israeli Center for Cult Victims in 2018.

Wikipedia: Shuvu Bonim (EN)

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Dome of the Tablets

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The Dome of the Spirits is a small dome resting on an octagonal base, located on the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Wikipedia: Dome of the Spirits (EN)

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Sight 17: Dome of al-Khalili

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The Dome of al-Khalili or the Hebronite is a small domed-building located in the central platform of the Temple Mount, north of the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem. The building is made of bricks which are currently tarnished. The Dome of al-Khalili was built in the early 18th century during Ottoman rule of Palestine in dedication to Shaykh Muhammad al-Khalili, a scholar of fiqh who died in 1734.

Wikipedia: Dome of al-Khalili (EN)

219 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Dome of the Prophet

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The Dome of the Prophet, also known as the Dome of the Messenger and the Dome of Muhammed is a free-standing dome located on the al-Masjid al-Aqsa enclave, in Quds. It is located on the northwest part of the terrace where the Dome of the Rock stands and it is near the Dome of the Ascension.

Wikipedia: Dome of the Prophet (EN)

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Sight 19: Dome of the Ascension

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The Dome of the Ascension is an Islamic free-standing domed structure built by the Umayyads that stands just north the Dome of the Rock on the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem.

Wikipedia: Dome of the Ascension (EN)

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Sight 20: Dome of the Rock

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The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and its inscriptions contain the earliest epigraphic proclamations of Islam and of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Wikipedia: Dome of the Rock (EN)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 21: Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue

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The Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue also known as the Shomrei ha-Chomos Synagogue and the Ungarin Shul is located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built as a yeshiva in the 1870s by Kolel Shomrei HaChomos, an organization of Hungarian Jews, but was abandoned after the riots of 1938. Although the building was destroyed after 1948, it has recently been acquired by a Religious Zionist group for refurbishment and was reopened after restoration work finished in October 2008.

Wikipedia: Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue (EN)

307 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Small Kotel

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Small KotelDeror avi / Attribution

The Little Western Wall, also known as HaKotel HaKatan, the Small, or Little Kotel and the Kleiner Koisel, is a Jewish religious site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem near the Iron Gate to the Temple Mount. The wall itself dates from the Second Temple period. It is the continuation of the larger part of the Western Wall and almost exactly faces the Holy of Holies. HaKotel HaKatan is not as well-known and not as crowded as the larger part of the Western Wall. This section of the wall is of deep spiritual significance because of its close proximity to the Holy of Holies. However, it is not the closest location to the Holy of Holies, as there is a location in the Western Wall Tunnel which directly faces the Holy of Holies.

Wikipedia: Little Western Wall (EN)

1525 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 23: Pontifical Biblical Institute

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The Pontifical Biblical Institute of Jerusalem, founded in 1927, is a branch of the Institutum Pontificium Biblicum located in Rome, entrusted to the Jesuits. It also houses a museum and a library. It was directed by Rev. Fr. Roberto Lopez Facundo.

Wikipedia: Institut biblique pontifical (Jérusalem) (FR), Url

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