مقبرة مأمن الله

Mamilla Cemetery

This is the Palestine Heritage Journey to Mamilla Cemetery.

Mamilla was Jerusalem’s most prestigious graveyard, with one commentator vividly asserting that “burial in it is like burial in Heaven.”

Learn about early burials in Mamilla, tombs that remain today, tombs that have disappeared or been moved, the al-Qaymuriyya shrine, and the modern history of Mamilla, a graveyard wrapped in legends.

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Mamilla: Pathways

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1
“Like burial in Heaven”
1200 years of Muslim burials in Jerusalem
2
Tombs that remain
Mamluk Jerusalem, written in stone
3
Tombs that vanished
“Everyone that is thereon will pass away”
4
Al-Qaymuriyya: A tomb that transformed
Trajectory of a Jerusalem shrine
5
From sacred landscape to real estate
The erasure of Mamilla since 1948
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Credit
Primary research was conducted by Palestine Heritage Journeys co-lead researcher Tawfiq Daʿadli, with additional research from Gabriel Polley.
Bibliography
Mamilla timeline

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Village of Zakariyya

Explore another endangered archaeological site. In the words of Palestinian historian Khader Salameh, the story of Zakariyya “is the story of the Palestinian question, of the homeland, of pain and of loss."

Explore the early history of the village, Zakariyya under Islamic rule, the religious beliefs of its inhabitants, daily life, and finally, the destruction of Zakariyya after 1948.

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