Jewish Quarter Ancient Ruins

The Cardo is a wide, open-air walkway lined with towering stone columns and reconstructed arches that sit several feet below the modern street level. Originally built by the Romans in the second century, this was the primary north to south…

The Broad Wall stands as a massive stone fortification, twenty-three feet wide, running through the heart of the Jewish Quarter. King Hezekiah ordered its construction in the eighth century before the common era to protect Jerusalem from…

The Hurva Synagogue features a massive, arched stone dome that dominates the skyline of the Jewish Quarter. In seventeen hundred, a group of Ashkenazi settlers arrived here and began construction on a site they bought, but the project…

Deep below the modern street level of the Jewish Quarter lies a collection of six distinct villas preserved under a concrete roof. These homes belonged to the priestly families of Jerusalem two thousand years ago, during the reign of Herod…

The Burnt House sits six meters below the modern street level, encased in the stone foundations of the Jewish Quarter. Thick layers of ash coat the interior walls, a dark, physical remnant of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in seventy…

The Western Wall is a colossal limestone retaining wall composed of massive, hand-hewn blocks that rise above a wide, paved plaza. It remains the last fragment of the outer courtyard supporting the Second Temple compound, which Roman…