Jeruzalė

It is located just north of the Vilnius city center, neighboring with Santariškės [lt], Verkiai, Baltupiai [lt], and Visoriai [lt],[1]approximately bordered by the Mokslininkų ("Scientists") street in the north, Iron Wolf street [lt] in the west, Ateities street in the south, and the Jeruzalė street in the east.

The area was named after Jerusalem in the second half of the 17th century when a church and a Dominican monastery were built there on the land allocated from the Verkiai manor belonged to the diocese of Vilnius.

[1] Eventually it became a small village in the suburbs of Vilnius known under the Polish name Jerozolimka (Russian: Ерозолимка within the Russian Empire).

[2] In the interwar period it had Jewish population, in addition to Poles.

[1] First Lithuanian residents came to Jerozolimka in the wake of World War II.