Katamon
Sign in to saveKatamon or Qatamon (; ; ; from the Ancient Greek ), officially known as Gonen (; mainly used in municipal publications), is a neighborhood in south-central Jerusalem. It is built next to an old Greek Orthodox monastery, believed to have been constructed on the home and the tomb of Simeon from the Gospel of Luke.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Katamon
- Settlement.other_name
- Qatamon
- Settlement.official_name
- Gonen
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Neighborhood of Jerusalem
- Settlement.image_skyline
- בית רה"מ לוי אשכול ברחוב בוסתנאי 3 בשכנות קטמון בירושלים.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- House of Levi Eshkol
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jerusalem District
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- City
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Jerusalem
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_total
- 5,980
- Settlement.area_code_type
- Area code
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Street names
- History
- Antiquity
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate
- 1948 war
- Israeli period and resettlement
- Architecture
- Gentrification
- Landmarks
- Katamonim
- Sports
- Popular culture
- Notable residents
- References
- Bibliography
Katamon or Qatamon (; ; ; from the Ancient Greek ), officially known as Gonen (; mainly used in municipal publications), is a neighborhood in south-central Jerusalem. It is built next to an old Greek Orthodox monastery, believed to have been constructed on the home and the tomb of Simeon from the Gospel of Luke.
The neighborhood was established in the early 1900s, shortly before World War I, as a wealthy, predominantly Palestinian Christian neighborhood. During the 1947–48 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the local population fled the intense fighting in the area and were not allowed to return by the new Israeli state. Instead Katamon was soon repopulated by Jewish refugees.