American Colony Hotel
The American Colony Hotel is a luxury hotel located in a historic building in Jerusalem which previously housed the utopian American–Swedish community known as the American Colony.- Type: Hotel
- Description: hotel in East Jerusalem
- Also known as: “American Colony”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Orient House and Tombs of the Kings.
Orient House
Public building
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orient House is a building located in Jerusalem that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1980s and 1990s. Built in 1897 by Ismail Musa Al-Husseini, it has been owned by the Al-Husseini family since.
Tombs of the Kings
Cemetery
Photo: Amit A., Public domain.
The Tombs of the Kings are a rock-cut funerary complex in East Jerusalem believed to be the burial site of Queen Helene of Adiabene, hence: Helena's Monuments. Tombs of the Kings is situated 140 metres south of American Colony Hotel.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad. Dome of the Rock is situated 1½ km southeast of American Colony Hotel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bab az-Zahra and Batei Ungarin.
Bab az-Zahra
Suburb
Photo: Sir kiss, Public domain.
Bab az-Zahra is an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, north of the Old City. It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, Wadi al-Joz to the east, Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and Mea Shearim to the west.
Batei Ungarin
Neighborhood
Photo: Sir kiss, Public domain.
Batei Ungarin is a Haredi Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, north-east of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built by Kolel Ungarin, a Hungarian Jewish charity supporting Jews living in the Land of Israel.
Sheikh Jarrah
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sheikh Jarrah is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.
American Colony Hotel
- Categories: tourism, accommodation, and building
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.78978° or 31° 47′ 23″ northLongitude
35.22942° or 35° 13′ 46″ eastElevation
764 metres (2,507 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6QH+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 561072189OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=hotel
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Macedonian—“American Colony Hotel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فندق أميريكان كولوني”
- Arabic: “فندق المستعمرة الأمريكية”
- Chinese: “美國殖民地酒店”
- Dutch: “American Colony Hotel”
- Dutch: “American Colony”
- French: “American Colony Hotel”
- German: “American Colony Hotel”
- Hebrew: “אמריקן קולוני”
- Macedonian: “Американски хотел”
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