Katamon

Katamon or Qatamon (; ; ; from the Ancient Greek ), officially known as Gonen (; mainly used in municipal publications), is a neighborhood in south-central Jerusalem. It is built next to an old Greek Orthodox monastery, believed to have been constructed on the home and the tomb of Simeon from the Gospel of Luke.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Katamon
Settlement.other_name: Qatamon
Settlement.official_name: Gonen
Settlement.settlement_type: Neighborhood of Jerusalem
Settlement.image_skyline: בית רה"מ לוי אשכול ברחוב בוסתנאי 3 בשכנות קטמון בירושלים.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: House of Levi Eshkol
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: District
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Jerusalem District
Settlement.subdivision_type2: City
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Jerusalem
Settlement.population_as_of: 2017
Settlement.population_total: 5,980
Settlement.area_code_type: Area code

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Area: 157
Image: PikiWiki Israel 12877 morcos house katamon.jpg

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Geography
Street names
History
Antiquity
Ottoman era
British Mandate
1948 war
Israeli period and resettlement
Architecture
Gentrification
Landmarks
Katamonim
Sports
Popular culture
Notable residents
References
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The neighborhood was established in the early 1900s, shortly before World War I, as a wealthy, predominantly Palestinian Christian neighborhood. During the 1947–48 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the local population fled the intense fighting in the area and were not allowed to return by the new Israeli state. Instead Katamon was soon repopulated by Jewish refugees.