Historical place profile
Ierusalem / Hierosolyma
Jerusalem is the principal sacred and historical centre of biblical Israel, the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, Pentecost and the first apostolic community. Its successive political, urban and religious forms must not be collapsed into one timeless boundary.
Historical layers
- Davidic and First Temple city
- Second Temple Jerusalem
- Passion, Resurrection and apostolic community
- Aelia Capitolina and late-antique Christian city
- Medieval pilgrimage and contested sovereignty
Church-history significance
The Gospels, Acts and early pilgrimage witnesses make Jerusalem indispensable to Christian history. The Church of Jerusalem, the apostolic council and the holy places must be dated within changing political administrations.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 687928
- Old and New Testament Jerusalem passages
- Acts 1–15; Eusebius and early pilgrimage texts
Map semantics
The coordinate at 31.778, 35.235 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:687928
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:687928
- Place type
- urban area, settlement, sacred place
- Precision
- representative
- Provenance
- Pleiades 687928 and related Jerusalem place records