David's Tomb in the context of "Church of Zion, Jerusalem"

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⭐ Core Definition: David's Tomb

David's Tomb (Hebrew: קבר דוד המלך, romanized: Kever David HaMelekh; Arabic: مقام النبي داود, romanized: Maqām al-Nābī Dāwud) is a site that, according to an early medieval (9th century) tradition, is associated with the burial of the biblical king David. During the Ottoman and British Mandate periods, Maqam Al-Nabi Daoud served one of Jerusalem prime Islamic shrines. The building is now administered by the Diaspora Yeshiva Jewish seminary group. Historians, archaeologists and Jewish religious authorities do not consider the site to be the actual resting place of King David.

The compound is located on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, near the Christian Abbey of the Dormition. The compound is thought to be situated in what once was a ground floor corner of the Hagia Zion. It occupies the ground floor of a former church, whose upper floor holds the Cenacle or "Upper Room" traditionally identified as the place of Jesus' Last Supper and the original meeting place of the early Christian community of Jerusalem.

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David's Tomb in the context of Expansion of Jerusalem in the 19th century

The expansion of Jerusalem outside of the Old City walls, which included shifting the city center to the new neighborhoods, started in the mid-19th century and by the early 20th century had entirely transformed the city. Prior to the 19th century, the main built up areas outside the walls were the complex around King David's Tomb on the southern Mount Zion, and the village of Silwan.

In the mid-19th century, with an area of only one square kilometer, the Old City had become overcrowded and unsanitary, with rental prices on a constant rise. In the mid-1850s, following the Crimean War, institutions including the Russian Compound, Kerem Avraham, the Schneller Orphanage, Bishop Gobat school and the Mishkenot Sha'ananim compound, marked the beginning of permanent settlement outside Jerusalem's Old City walls.

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Hebrew language → Romanization of Hebrew → Arabic language → Romanization of Arabic → David → Ottoman Empire → Mandatory Palestine → Yeshiva → Mount Zion → Jerusalem → Abbey of the Dormition → Church of Zion, Jerusalem → Cenacle → Jesus → Last Supper →