Mount Zion

The sacred hill outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, home to the Last Supper room, King David’s Tomb, the Dormition Abbey, and the Schindler grave. A crossroads of Jewish and Christian heritage.

The church marking where tradition holds Peter denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed, on the eastern slope of Mount Zion.

The traditional room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, a Gothic hall built by the Crusaders over the site of the most famous meal in history.

The German Benedictine church on Mount Zion marking where, by Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary fell into eternal sleep, with stunning mosaics and a haunting crypt.

Israel’s first Holocaust memorial, established on Mount Zion in 1949 before Yad Vashem was built. A small but powerful chamber with Torah scrolls and ashes from the concentration camps.

The Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion where Oskar Schindler is buried, the man who saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

The traditional tomb of King David on Mount Zion, a place of Jewish prayer for centuries and one of the most contested sacred sites in Jerusalem.