St. John
The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is a charitable foundation which operates an ophthalmic hospital in Jerusalem – one of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network – and satellite eye care clinics and hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hospital
- Description: hospital in Palestine
- Also known as: “Saint John Eye Hospital Group” and “St John Eye Hospital Group”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saint Joseph and Police National Headquarters.
Saint Joseph
Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital is a Catholic general hospital in East Jerusalem, established in 1956 at the initiative of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, as a replacement for their St.
Police National Headquarters
Police station
The National Headquarters of the Israel Police is the headquarters of the Israel Police, located in Kiryat Menachem Begin in East Jerusalem. Police National Headquarters is situated 250 metres northeast of St. John.
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 2 km south of St. John.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheikh Jarrah and Kiryat Menachem Begin.
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.
Kiryat Menachem Begin
Neighborhood
Kiryat Menachem Begin, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in East Jerusalem located between Sheikh Jarrah in the north, adjacent to Mount Scopus in the east and Ammunition Hill in the west.
Ma’alot Dafna
Suburb
Ma'alot Dafna is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It borders the neighborhood of Shmuel HaNavi to the west, Ammunition Hill to the east, Ramat Eshkol to the north and Arzei HaBira to the south.
St. John
- Category: health care
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.79539° or 31° 47′ 43″ northLongitude
35.23139° or 35° 13′ 53″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6WJ+5HOpenStreetMap ID
way 56062133OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=hospitalWikidata ID
Q7593655
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“St. John” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مجموعة مستشفى سان جون للعيون”
- Catalan: “Hospital Oftalmològic Sant Joan de Jerusalem”
- French: “Groupe hospitalier ophtalmologique de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem”
- French: “Hôpital ophtalmologique de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem”
- French: “Saint John Eye Hospital Group”
- Hebrew: “בית החולים למחלות עיניים סנט ג’ון בירושלים”
- Hebrew: “בית החולים סנט ג’ון”
- Hebrew: “סנט ג’ון”
- Panjabi: “ਸੇਂਟ ਜੌਨ ਆਈ ਹਸਪਤਾਲ ਗਰੁੱਪ”
- Spanish: “Hospital Oftalmológico San Juan de Jerusalén”
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Notable Places Nearby
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