The Old Yemenite Synagogue, known to its congregation as Beit Knesset Ohel Shlomo (lit.

The synagogue was constructed in the nineteenth century[2]: 87–88  in the Yemenite Village (Harat al-Yaman in Arabic),[3] in the Kfar Hashiloach (Hebrew: כפר השילוח) neighborhood.

[4] In 1936, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Yemenite-Jewish community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Jerusalem Community Council (Va'ad ha-Kehillah), the local counterpart of the Jewish National Council (Va'ad Leumi), into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened.

[2]: 56  and in 1938, the remaining Yemenite Jews in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police.

[3][5] In May 2015 Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish group that had established legal ownership of the old synagogue, moved into the building.