The Scots Hotel is a hotel in
Tiberias
Tiberias ( ; he, טְבֶרְיָה, ; ar, طبريا, Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's F ...
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Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, formerly the Scots Mission Hospital, also known as the Scottish Compound. The hotel is run by the
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland.
The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...
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History
The hospital was originally founded in 1894 by the Scottish doctor and minister David Watt Torrance, who had first arrived in Tiberias in 1884, as the head of the Church of Scotland mission, to serve the rapidly expanding population. The hospital accepted patients of all races and religions. In 1894, it moved to the current, larger premises at Beit abu Shamnel abu Hannah. In 1923 his son, Dr. Herbert Watt Torrance, was appointed head of the hospital. After the establishment of the State of Israel, it became a maternity hospital supervised by the
Israeli Department of Health.
After its closure in 1959, the building became a guesthouse, known as the Scottish Hospice. In 1999, it was renovated at the cost of around
£10,000,000 and reopened as the Scots Hotel.
See also
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St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem
St Andrew's Church, also known as the Scots Memorial Church, is a church in Jerusalem built as a memorial to the Scottish soldiers who were killed fighting the Turkish Army during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I, bringing to ...
References
External links
Scots Hotel Tiberias, homepage (1)on Church of Scotland website (2021)
Scots Hotel Tiberias, homepage (2)at inisrael.com (2021)
Scottish church in Tiberias, homepage– St Andrew's Galilee congregation (2021)
St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem, homepagewith links to further facilities in Israel (2021)
Historical photos (1934-46) American Colony Jerusalem/Matson Collection, at US Library of Congress. Accessed 2021.
Historical photosfrom Matson Collection, BBC News article. Accessed 2021.
Hotels in Israel
Church of Scotland
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