Landmark
Armenian Quarter
Walled Old City neighborhood settled by Armenian monks in the fourth century, later a refuge for genocide survivors.
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About this audio guide
The Armenian Quarter guide begins in the autumn of 1915, when a small monastic compound in Jerusalem's Old City opened its gates to survivors fleeing the Armenian Genocide, eventually sheltering as many as ten thousand refugees. It traces how that act turned a few hundred monks and pilgrims into a community that still speaks Armenian within these walls today, with many residents tracing their family back to someone who walked through that gate a century ago. The guide then follows the quarter's narrow lanes into a present-day dispute over open land at its edge.
This audio guide was created using AI.