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Sanhedria () is a neighborhood in northern
Sanhedria is named after the Tombs of the Sanhedrin, an elaborate underground complex of
Between Friends and Strangers: Micro-Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem
''City & Community'', June 2012.
Until the 1980s, the neighborhood was composed of Haredi, National-Religious and secular Jewish families. Today most of the residents are Haredi, covering several subgroups: Hasidim,
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...
. It lies east of Golda Meir Street, adjacent to Ramat Eshkol, Shmuel HaNavi, Maalot Dafna and the Sanhedria Cemetery.
History
Sanhedria is named after the Tombs of the Sanhedrin, an elaborate underground complex of rock-cut tombs
A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation, so a type of rock-cut architecture. They are usually cut into a cliff or sloping rock face, but may go downward in fairly flat ground. It was a ...
constructed in the 1st century and thought to be the burial place of the members of the Sanhedrin
The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Middle Aramaic , a loanword from , 'assembly,' 'sitting together,' hence ' assembly' or 'council') was a Jewish legislative and judicial assembly of either 23 or 70 elders, existing at both a local and central level i ...
.
Until 1967, Sanhedria was a frontier neighborhood adjacent to the Jordanian border and dominated by privately owned Jewish agricultural plots. After the Six Day War, construction of new housing led to an influx of newcomers from the religious community who were attracted by the location, within walking distance of the Old City and Western Wall (2 km). Many institutions were built in the neighborhood.Shlomit Flint, Itzhak Benenson and Nurit AlfasiBetween Friends and Strangers: Micro-Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem
''City & Community'', June 2012.
Until the 1980s, the neighborhood was composed of Haredi, National-Religious and secular Jewish families. Today most of the residents are Haredi, covering several subgroups: Hasidim, Lithuanian Jews
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Litvaks ({{Langx, yi, ליטװאַקעס) or Lita'im ({{Langx, he, לִיטָאִים) are Jews who historically resided in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (covering present-day Lithuan ...
(27%) and Sephardim
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendan ...
.
Further reading
*Sanhedriya – the northern border neighbouhood of Jerusalem: history, sites, people, and tour routes / Moshe Ehrnvald. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2016. (Hebrew)References
{{authority control Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem Populated places with year of establishment missing