Also known as Mount Sion, the Upper City, the Southwestern Hill "Zion" became applied to the section of Jerusalem where the fortress stood, and after Solomon's Temple was built there, it came to refer to the temple grounds and the temple itself. Today "Zion" is often used metaphorically, to symbolize Jerusalem and the Promised Land to come, in which God dwells among his chosen people.
Mount Zion - Hebrew - Har Tziyyon is the name of a hill in Jerusalem just outside the walls of the Old City. The term "Zion" became a synecdoche referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Mount Zion - Hebrew - Har Tziyyon is the name of a hill in Jerusalem just outside the walls of the Old City. The term "Zion" became a synecdoche referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Mount Zion is the highest point in the city of Jerusalem, equally as high as the Temple Mount, is the Western Hill. This is the summit and western slope of the ridge just to the east of the Tyropean Valley and the Lower City. Mount Zion - site of the Last Supper and of King David’s Tomb.
The term "Zion" became a synecdoche referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Important sites on Mount Zion today are Dormition Abbey , King David's Tomb and the Room of the Last Supper. The Chamber of the Holocaust (Martef Hashoah), the precursor of Yad Vashem is also located on Mount Zion. Other places of interest are the Christian cemetery where Oskar Schindler, a Righteous Gentile who saved hundreds of Jews in the Holocaust, is buried.
The term "Zion" became a synecdoche referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.
Important sites on Mount Zion today are Dormition Abbey , King David's Tomb and the Room of the Last Supper. The Chamber of the Holocaust (Martef Hashoah), the precursor of Yad Vashem is also located on Mount Zion. Other places of interest are the Christian cemetery where Oskar Schindler, a Righteous Gentile who saved hundreds of Jews in the Holocaust, is buried.
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