Independence Park (Jerusalem)

In 1927, during the British Mandate period, the Supreme Muslim Council lifted the sanctification of the cemetery and ruled against further burials there.

Shlomo Aronson redesigned it, creating an undulating, grassy central space and waterways that lead down to the Mamilla Pool, an ancient reservoir thought to have provided part of the Old City’s water supply.

[9] Jewish, Muslim, and Christian legends all maintain that the remains of their faithful are buried there, and that a lion, created by God, was placed there to guard the dead.

[10] Jewish tradition states that the bones of Jews killed by the Seleucid Greeks are buried there.

Muslims state that Allah transferred remains from the nearby Mamilla cemetery to the cave to save them from a fire.