Four Quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem

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cultural-geographic concept neighborhood system traditional urban division

The Four Quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem are the traditional divisions—Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Armenian—that organize the historic walled center of Jerusalem into distinct religious and cultural neighborhoods.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural-geographic concept ⓘ neighborhood system ⓘ traditional urban division ⓘ
appliesTo	historic walled center of Jerusalem ⓘ
associatedWithReligion	Armenian Apostolic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ Christianity ⓘ Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ
borderedBy	Old City walls of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy	historic architecture ⓘ mixed population in practice ⓘ pilgrimage routes ⓘ religious landmarks ⓘ
containsImportantSite	Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Church of the Holy Sepulchre NERFINISHED ⓘ Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ
formalizedDuring	Ottoman rule in Jerusalem ⓘ
hasFunction	organizing markets and streets ⓘ organizing religious institutions ⓘ organizing residential areas ⓘ
hasHistoricalRoot	late medieval neighborhood patterns ⓘ
hasLocalName	Arbaat ha-Rova'im (Hebrew, conceptually) ⓘ arbaʿat aḥyāʾ al-madīna al-qadīma (Arabic, conceptually) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Armenian Quarter NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian Quarter NERFINISHED ⓘ Jewish Quarter NERFINISHED ⓘ Muslim Quarter NERFINISHED ⓘ
influences	heritage management in the Old City ⓘ municipal planning in the Old City ⓘ
languageOfName	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Jerusalem ⓘ Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle East ⓘ Old City of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ
numberOfParts	4 ⓘ
organizedBy	cultural identity ⓘ religious affiliation ⓘ
recognizedAs	traditional division of the Old City ⓘ
relatedTo	Christian pilgrimage ⓘ Jewish pilgrimage ⓘ Muslim pilgrimage ⓘ status of Jerusalem ⓘ
usedIn	scholarly descriptions of Jerusalem ⓘ tourist maps of Jerusalem ⓘ
usedSince	Ottoman period ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem → largestOf → Four Quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem ⓘ