At-Tur (Mount of Olives)

At-Tur (Arabic: الطور‎, lit. "The Mount" in Arabic) is an Arab neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem,^[1] which was annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.

In 1596, the village appeared as Tur Zayta in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 48 Muslim households and 8 bachelors, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, vines or fruit trees, and goats or beehives.^[2]

At-Tur has a population of 18,150, mostly Muslim Arabs with a small Christian minority. Landmarks in At-Tur include the Augusta Victoria Hospital, the Church and Convent of Pater Noster, where the Lord's Prayer is inscribed in 110 languages,^[3][4] and the Seven Arches Hotel.^[5]

Al-Makassed Hospital, a 250-bed medical facility with in-patient and out-patient services is located in At-Tur.^[6]

See also

• Positions on Jerusalem

References

1. ^ "Building and Infrastructure Development in East Jerusalem" (Press release). Municipality of Jerusalem. 3 March 1997. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1997/3/Building%20and%20Infrastructure%20Development%20in%20East%20Je. Retrieved 2007-06-02. 
2. ^ Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 118. 
3. ^ The Pater Noster Church on the Mount of Olives
4. ^ Church of the Pater Noster - Jerusalem, Israel
5. ^ http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/english/article.php?id=320
6. ^ BioJerusalem - Al-Makassed Hospital

External links

• Interview with a priest on the Mount of Olives and a resident of a-Tur