Muristan

The Muristan (from Persian بیمارستان Bimaristan, " hospital, madhouse " ), to which today except the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, the site of the Martin Luther School, the Lutheran Hospice as well as some shops are, is an area in the center of the Jerusalem's Old City.

It is in the west of the Christian Quarter Road, in the south of the David Street, bounded on the east by the Suq el- Lahhamin and in the north by the Suq ed Dabbagha. The Muristan Road divides the site into a western and an eastern area.

History

Even Charlemagne had the land as a gift from the Caliph of Baghdad, the legendary Haroun al Raschid was obtained. The Emperor let it build a hospice for pilgrims.

In 1064, the Muristan went over by another gift in the possession of a merchant from Amalfi. A first mentioned in 1048 and donated by merchants from Amalfi long before the First Crusade, but now destroyed pilgrim hostel was rebuilt. In addition to the hospital, which was dedicated to the Almoner either John the Baptist, or John, Marie, two churches, a St. John's Church and two monasteries, whose task was to care for male and female sick pilgrims, built. A little later, in 1099, the Hospitallers was here (also Order of St. John ) founded the Order of Malta today. In the place of this first hospital of St. John, and a memorial be imputed at this point memorial stone. The Order, and traced its name from the patron saint of the hospital, was sold in the victory of Saladin over the Crusaders from Jerusalem in 1187 and the building continued as an Islamic foundation. Until the 16th century there were still ill maintained, then fell into the Muristan, and the buildings were almost completely destroyed. Around the middle of the 19th century were in many places ruins, at the same time it was the only too tilling land in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate bought the part west of today's Muristan Road (formerly Crown Prince Friedrich- Wilhelm-Straße ) to build bazaars.

1869 appropriated the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II, the eastern part of Muristan area to the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick William as a gift to the King of Prussia, Wilhelm I was here on 31 October 1898 in the presence of the German Emperor and Empress, the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer was inaugurated.

The archaeological park opened in November 2012 "The Times", which is located at the Church of the Redeemer, offers the possibility of the History of Jerusalem, especially, the Muri Stans real commit.

Today is the Muristan owned by the Evangelical Jerusalem Foundation in Hannover.

Visit of the German Emperor and Empress, 1898

Muristan wells and Redeemer Church at Night

Arab souvenir shop in the Muristan

Street sign Muristan Street in Jerusalem's Old City