Jerusalem Off The Beaten Path Tips by FruitLover

Italian Hospital [more] Outside the Wall Review

This building belongs to the Florentine-style, with elements from the Palazzo Vecchio and the Medici Chapel in Florence and Palazzo Pubblico in Siena .
Today it is the house of offices of Ministry of Education.

Location: HaNevi'em[=the Prophet] St.

Italian Hospital Outside the Wall Review

This building belongs to the Florentine-style, with elements from the Palazzo Vecchio and the Medici Chapel in Florence and Palazzo Pubblico in Siena .
Today it is the house of offices of Ministry of Education.

Location: HaNevi'em[=the Prophet] St.

St Georges Cathedral -Oxford in Jerusalem Outside the Wall Review

The college & cathedral of St Georges immitate the Gothic style of the English colleges from the 14th & 15th centuries.

The design reminds, generally, the New College in Oxford, while the Bells Tower is almost a copy of Magdalen College Tower of Oxford.

This Anglican cathedral, established in 1899. is the seat of the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

More examples of Mamluki architecture The Old City Jerusalem Review

"The characteristic decorative elements of the Mamluk period are:

Mukarnas - graduated, three-dimensional stone stalactites in the half-dome above the entrance.

Ablak - striped masonry. Courses of the beautiful cream-colored local limestone are alternated with courses of differently colored stone, usually red, but also black and yellow.

Klebo - interlacing stones in different colors, carved in a variety of profiles and laid in intertwining, puzzle-like fashion".

Website: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Jerusalem%20-%20Elaborate%20buildings%20of%20the%20Mamluk%20Peri

Mamluki architecture The Old City Jerusalem Review

"The characteristic decorative elements of the Mamluk period are:

Mukarnas - graduated, three-dimensional stone stalactites in the half-dome above the entrance.

Ablak - striped masonry. Courses of the beautiful cream-colored local limestone are alternated with courses of differently colored stone, usually red, but also black and yellow.

Klebo - interlacing stones in different colors, carved in a variety of profiles and laid in intertwining, puzzle-like fashion".

Website: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Jerusalem%20-%20Elaborate%20buildings%20of%20the%20Mamluk%20Peri

Mamluk mosque The Old City Jerusalem Review

The Mamluk governed in Jerusalem on years 1250 - 1517.
Mamluk buildings located in the Old City along the streets to the north and west of Temple Mount.

German Colony - Gemeindehaus Outside the Wall Review

Buildings' stories:

Town Hall (Gemeindehaus). Served for community gatherings & prayers.
Was built in 1882, by support of Templers' sponsors in Israel and abroad.

Scmidt's Girls School Outside the Wall Review

Augusta Victoria Hospital Outside the Wall Review

Museum for Islamic Art Outside the Wall Review

Artworks of old and modern Muslim artists, including from Spain, India and China.

Unfortunately, photographing is not allowed inside the museum.
And that's the only picture I took.

For a long time before the discovery of the arabic manuscripts it was thought that Chess originated from Persia, however virtually all of the arabic texts claimed that chess arrived from India (via Persia). This was the primary reason that the origin of chess is now stated to be India.

Address: 2 Ha-Palmach St

Directions:
Talbiya, West Jerusalem,
about 500 m from President's residence.

Phone: 02/566-1291