ABSTRACT
W estern visitors and pilgrims visited Jerusalem for many centuries, and a great many of them stayed in inns and religious establishments located in the Old City (Fig. 2.1). 1 Taking lodgings in religious establishments was common practice among visitors to the city from ancient times, since they could provide room and board, protection from seemingly discriminatory decisions of local authorities and safety from various unruly elements in the city. They could also give some medical attention when needed, and a supply of guides from among the religious brethren to take visitors around the holy sites. 2 Murray in his Hand-book for Travellers (1858), however, did not recommend lodging at convents: ‘here little comfort need be expected. The cells are generally about as abundantly stocked as the study of an entomologist. The attendance, too, is sorry enough, and the reception anything but flattering, unless one goes to them with a lordly train, such as gives fair prospect of a golden return’. 3 A map of the Old City of Jerusalem and its vicinity showing the locations of hotels, hostels, and other places mentioned in the text of the book. (1) Mediterranean Hotel (I); (2) Mediterranean Hotel (II)/Hotel Amerique/Wittenberg House; (3) Amzalak Hotel/Rosenthal Hotel (I)/Mediterranean Hotel (III)/Central Hotel; (4) Rosenthal Hotel (II); (5) Howard’s Hotel (I)/Hotel du Parc/Fast Hotel (II)/Allenby Hotel; (6) Howard’s Hotel (II); (7) Damascus Hotel; (8) Melita Hotel (I); (9) Melita Hotel (II); (10) Feil Hotel (I); (11) Grand New Hotel/New Citadel Hotel/Imperial Hotel; (12) Hughes Hotel; (13) Lloyd Hotel/Fast Hotel (I)/Kaminitz Hotel; (14) Hotel St.John; (15) Hotel Metropole; (16) French Consulate (with Meshullam Hotel nearby); (17) American Consulate/Cook’s Office; (18) Austrian Hospice; (19) Casa Nova Hospice; (20) Prussian Hospice (III); (21) Paulus Hospice; (22) Olivet Pension (I); (23) Olivet Pension (II); (24) Dom Polski building; (25) Fast’s shop; (26) Christ Church; (27) Church of St. John (<italic>Drawing by Vered Shatil for the Shapell Manuscript Foundation</italic>) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315084695/95be0c4c-4a25-460d-80e5-d37d6285c85e/content/fig2_1.tif"/>
