Street of the Prophets

Street of the Prophets (Hebrew: רחוב הנביאים, Rehov HaNevi'im) is an east–west axis road in Jerusalem beginning outside Damascus Gate and ending at Davidka Square.

In the mid-19th century, the hospitals that were located in the Old City were forced to move due to high population density and difficult sanitary conditions.

The most prominent was the London Jews' Society mission headquartered at the western end of the street (now the Anglican International School campus).

The hospitals run by Christian missionary organizations offered free medical care to attract Jewish patients for the purposes of missionizing.

Herzl met the emperor on an empty lot at #42 Street of the Prophets, where Wilhelm and his entourage were quartered in a tent camp.

[21] Following the emperor's visit, the Ottoman authorities gave him the lot as a gift; Wilhelm, in turn, granted it to the German provostry, which constructed its headquarters there in 1903.

[23] Known as the "bird mosaic", the floor depicts peacocks, ducks, storks, pigeons, an eagle, a partridge, and a parrot in a cage, along with branches and grape clusters, all symbols of death in early Christian art.

Beneath a corner of the mosaic lay a natural cave containing human bones which were dated to the 5th or 6th century, indicating that the room was used as a mortuary chapel.

[24] The two-story buildings, constructed by Muslims, currently house a health clinic[23] and the Bird Mosaic can now be seen in the courtyard of the Mardigian Museum in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City, which reopened in 2022.

The English Mission Hospital, for example, was used by the Ottoman army to house their wounded soldiers during World War I; in 1917, the British Mandate officials turned it into the headquarters for the 60th Division that conquered Jerusalem.

[5] In 1948, the eastern end of the street, forming a triangle with the Old City walls and the southern side of the neighborhood of Musrara, was part of the no man's land between Israel and Jordan.

The proposal met with stiff opposition from Jerusalem residents, as it called for destroying the historic garden courtyards of the buildings lining the street.

In recent years, the city has granted permits for the development of high-rise, luxury apartment projects on and alongside Street of the Prophets.

[2] Between 1976 and 1988, a railway coach parked a few meters east of Bikur Holim Hospital housed the national headquarters for the Yad Sarah home-care equipment lending organization.