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Jeruzalė

Coordinates: 54°44′35″N 25°16′41″E / 54.743°N 25.278°E / 54.743; 25.278
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54°44′35″N 25°16′41″E / 54.743°N 25.278°E / 54.743; 25.278

Jeruzalė, Vilnius, aerial view, 2023

Jeruzalė ("Jerusalem" in Lithuanian) is a neighborhood of Vilnius [lt] under the administration of the Verkiai eldersip (lt:Verkių seniūnija). It is located just north of the Vilnius city center, neighboring with Santariškės [lt], Verkiai, Baltupiai [lt], and Visoriai [lt],[1]approximately bordered by the Mokslininkų ("Scientists") street in the north, Iron Wolf street [lt] in the west, Ateities street in the south, and the Jeruzalė street in the east.

History

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The area was named after Jerusalem in the second half of the 17th century when a church and a Dominican monastery were built there on the land allocated from the Verkiai manor belonged to the diocese of Vilnius.[1] Eventually it became a small village in the suburbs of Vilnius known under the Polish name Jerozolimka (Russian: Ерозолимка within the Russian Empire). In 1866 the settlement Jerozolima-Werki[a] (a.k.a. Jarozolimka) had 8 households with 55 residents.[2] In the interwar period it had Jewish population, in addition to Poles.[3] It was incorporated into Vilnius in 1930.[1] First Lithuanian residents came to Jerozolimka in the wake of World War II.[4]

Sights

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A sculpture by Mindaugas Navakas [lt] in the Sculpture Garden
Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross

Notes

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  1. ^ Werki is Verkiai now

References

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  1. ^ a b c Jeruzalė, Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia
  2. ^ "Jerozolima-Werki ". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 3. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1882. p. 565.
  3. ^ " 'Jerozolima' pod Wilnem" Tygodnik spoleczno-polityczny dla miast i wiosek, November 5 1933
  4. ^ Wczoraj wieś Jerozolimka, dziś — prestiżowa dzielnica miasta