Ein Kerem

Coordinates: 31°45′55″N 35°8′58″E / 31.76528°N 35.14944°E / 31.76528; 35.14944

Ein Karem in the Jerusalem hills

Ein Karem (Hebrew: עַיִן כרֶם‎‎) is an ancient village of the Jerusalem District and now a neighbourhood in southwest Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 16, 1948.

Ein Kerem Media

Ain Karim area in the 1870s
Ein Karim and the surrounding area in the 1944 Survey of Palestine
Ein Kerem 1948
The Temple that Alice May Carey built on Mount Ora, above ein Karim
A photo of Ein Kerem showing the mountain village-turned-neighborhood from the Gorny Covenant. Left of center is the Church of Saint John the Baptist.
Church of the Visitation
Monastery of St. John in the Mountains
Convent of the Sisters of Zion
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne's tomb, Ein Kerem