Beit David was the fourth Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of Jerusalem.

[1] Beit David was founded as an almshouse for Jews on a plot of land donated by a kollel.

[3] Because Beit David was far from the kollel's center in the Old City, it contained a synagogue and 10 apartments to ensure the existence of a minyan.

[2] The residence of Abraham Isaac Kook, Israel's first Askenanzic chief rabbi was on the second floor of the building, added in 1922.

[4] The Museum of Psalms, located on the ground floor for many years, featured the paintings of Moshe Tzvi HaLevi Berger, a Kabbalist and painter.