Muristan
Sign in to saveThe Muristan (; ) is a complex of streets and shops in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was the location of the first Bimaristan of the Knights Hospitaller. The name Muristan is derived from the Persian word Bimārestān, meaning "hospital".
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Muristan
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- Suq Aftimos.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
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- The market area of the Muristan, Suq Aftimos, with the Muristan fountain at its centre
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- Old Jerusalem
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- right
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- City
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- Old City of Jerusalem
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- Quarter
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- Christian Quarter
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- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 11th century
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11 sectionsContents
- Christianity
- History
- Roman period
- Byzantine period
- Early Muslim period
- Crusader period
- Ayyubid period and later decay
- 19th century
- Archaeology
- References
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The Muristan (; ) is a complex of streets and shops in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was the location of the first Bimaristan of the Knights Hospitaller. The name Muristan is derived from the Persian word Bimārestān, meaning "hospital".
==Christianity== The area just south of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has a long tradition dating to the days of Judas Maccabeus in the 2nd century BC, based on incidents recorded in the Second Book of Maccabees. According to the legend, King Antiochus V proceeded to Jerusalem to punish the High Priest for plundering David's Tomb. While on Golgotha, the king was directed in a divine vision to pardon the High Priest, and to build a hospital for the care of the sick and poor on that spot. In 1496, William Caoursin, Vice-Chancellor of the Hospitallers, wrote that Judas Maccabaeus and John Hyrcanus founded the hospital on that spot.