Terra Sancta Museum
The Terra Sancta Museum is a network of museums managed by the Custody of the Holy Land and located in the Old City of Jerusalem. It originated from the first "Museum of the Franciscan Fathers" opened in 1902 to exhibit the results of archaeological excavations conducted in the Holy Land by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.Photo: Benoit Soubeyran, CC BY 2.0.
- Opening hours: Monday—Friday 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum network in Jerusalem
- Also known as: “TSM”
- Address: 1 Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Church of the Flagellation.
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 310 metres southeast of Terra Sancta Museum.
Church of the Flagellation
Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of the Flagellation is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near St. Stephen's Gate.
Pool of Bethesda
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The Pool of Bethesda is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in Jerusalem, described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. Pool of Bethesda is situated 210 metres northeast of Terra Sancta Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muslim Quarter and East Jerusalem.
Muslim Quarter
Neighborhood
Photo: McKaby, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Muslim Quarter is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem. It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.
East Jerusalem
Photo: Papierdrache, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Jerusalem is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled Old City is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.
Old City
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old City of Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.
Terra Sancta Museum
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.78057° or 31° 46′ 50″ northLongitude
35.23399° or 35° 14′ 2″ eastOperator
Custodia Terrae SantaeOpen location code
8G3QQ6JM+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 744674896OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q57272667
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Terra Sancta Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف تراسنطا”
- Basque: “Terra Sancta museoa”
- Basque: “Terra Sancta Museoa”
- Croatian: “Muzej Terra Sancta”
- Croatian: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- French: “Musée Terra Sancta”
- French: “Musée Terre Sainte”
- French: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- German: “Heiliges Land Museum”
- German: “Museum Heiliges Land”
- German: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- Italian: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- Japanese: “テラ・サンクタ博物館”
- Latin: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- Malay: “Muzium Terra Sancta”
- Polish: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- Portuguese: “Terra Sancta Museum”
- Spanish: “Museo Terra Sancta”
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