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Mount Zion (Har Tzion) is a hill just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. The term "Zion
Zion

Zion is a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia....
" became a synecdoche
Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which:* a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing , or* a term denoting a thing is used to refer to part of it , or...
 referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
.

There is reason to believe that in Biblical times the name Mount Zion referred to the area of what today is called by Jews the Temple Mount
Temple Mount

The Temple Mount , also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary , is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem of Jerusalem....
. However, as early as the first century the hill today called Mount Zion had acquired the name for unknown reasons.

Important sites on Mount Zion are Dormition Abbey, King David's Tomb
David's Tomb

King David's Tomb is believed to be situated on Mount Zion near the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.According to the Hebrew Bible, David is supposed to be buried inside the City of David together with other Judean kings, but ancient tradition holds that he is buried in the structure adjacent to the Dormition Church, owned by the Diaspora Yes...
 and the Room of the Last Supper.






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Mount Zion (Har Tzion) is a hill just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. The term "Zion
Zion

Zion is a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia....
" became a synecdoche
Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which:* a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing , or* a term denoting a thing is used to refer to part of it , or...
 referring to the entire city of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
.

There is reason to believe that in Biblical times the name Mount Zion referred to the area of what today is called by Jews the Temple Mount
Temple Mount

The Temple Mount , also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary , is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem of Jerusalem....
. However, as early as the first century the hill today called Mount Zion had acquired the name for unknown reasons.

Important sites on Mount Zion are Dormition Abbey, King David's Tomb
David's Tomb

King David's Tomb is believed to be situated on Mount Zion near the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.According to the Hebrew Bible, David is supposed to be buried inside the City of David together with other Judean kings, but ancient tradition holds that he is buried in the structure adjacent to the Dormition Church, owned by the Diaspora Yes...
 and the Room of the Last Supper. The Chamber of the Holocaust
The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
 (Martef HaShoah), the precursor of Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem

File:Yad Vashem BW 3.JPGYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
 is also located on Mount Zion. Another place of interest is the Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 cemetery where Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler was a Sudeten Germans industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively....
, a Righteous Gentile who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews in the Holocaust, is buried.

The winding road leading up to Mount Zion is known as Pope's Way (Derekh Ha'apifyor) because it was paved in honor of the historic visit to Jerusalem of Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and monarch of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978....
 in 1964. Between 1948 and 1967, this narrow strip of land was a designated no-man's land between Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 and Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
.