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Mount Zion
Hebrew: Har Tsiyyon
MtZion from Abu Tor.jpg
view of Mount Zion
Highest point
Elevation 765 m (2,510 ft)
Listing Judaean Mountains
Geography
Location Jerusalem

Mount Zion (Hebrew: הר צִיּוֹן‎‎‎, Har Tsiyyon; Arabic: جبل صهيون, Jabel Sahyoun) is a hill in the south-west corner of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is an extension of Temple Mount. There are a lot of churches and many little Christians and Jewish cemeteries in the area of Mount Zion. Half of the Mount Zion is in the Old City, in the Jewish and Armenian Quarters. The grave of King David is at the top of Mount Zion.

In the past there was a small cable car that connected the mountain to the valley below and the Old City. Today the cable car room is a museum inside an old hospital building.

Gallery

  • Last Supper Room Panoramic

    Cenacle

  • Kidron jerusalem (110)

    Mount Zion Cable Car

  • פתח אחת ממערות הגניזה כפי שצולם בשנת 1995

    Sambuski Cemetery - ancient jewish cemetery

  • Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery Jerusalem 03326

    Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery

  • Christian cemetery on Mt. Zion, Bishop Gobat School

    Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery

  • Pope's Road leading up to Mount Zion

    the Pope Road

  • Jerusalem Dormitio Church BW 1

    View of Mount Zion from Mount of Olives

  • JerusalemTopography

    Natural topography of the old city of Jerusalem and its surroundings.

  • Abendmahlssaal

    Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion

  • Pope-roadS

    Derekh Ha'Apifyor (Pope's Way) leading up to Mount Zion, so named by the Israeli government in honor of Pope Paul VI's historic visit to Israel in 1964

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Monte Sion para niños

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