---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 3
published: 1918-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Heart of Jerusalem,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 254–255."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2103unse
start_page: 254
end_page: 255
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Heart of Jerusalem

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THE HEART OF JERUSALEM |

A recent photograph of the heart of the City of Jerusalem, which |

surrendered to the British forces on Dec. 9, 1917. |

This photograph was made from the famous Tower of David, at the |

Jaffa gate, giving an eastward view of the center of the city. In the back- 1

ground can be seen the Mount of Olives, crowned by a modern Russian |

tower. Directly in the center is the Dome of the Rock, or the "Mosque |

of Omar," the site of Solomon's Temple. It covers the traditional rock 1

where Abraham made ready his offering and David built his altar. Di- |

rectly in back of it is the Garden of Gethsemane. The new pointed tower |

at the left belongs to the church of St. John, the headquarters of the |

Knights of St. John during the Crusades, and now the property of the |

German government. Winding up the Mount of Olives are seen the three 1

narrow paths that lead to Bethany. In the immediate foreground is the I

business center and the principal street. On :he left side of the street |

is the Deutsche Palestina Bank and alongside that the Central Hotel, |

well known to all tourists. I

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