1967 Salmon City Plan or Map of Jerusalem

This is a 1967 city plan or map of Jerusalem's Old City originally produced by Frederick John Salmon and reissued with Hebrew text by the Survey of Israel. This edition was published in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem including the Old City came under Israeli occupation.

A Closer Look

Notable sites are identified, with particular emphasis on the Temple Mount (הַר הַבַּיִת). The Dome of the Rock (כיפת הסלע) and Solomon's Stables (אורוות שלמה, now the El-Marwani Mosque), are labeled, among other sites. Sixty-three sites throughout are numerically labeled and correspond with an index in the lower-right. Outside the Old City, King David's Tomb and the Church of the Dormition appear at bottom-left on Mt. Zion (הר ציון). Several hospitals, schools, and cemeteries are also identified.

Publication History and Census

This map was originally compiled, drawn, and printed in British Mandate Palestine under the direction of Frederick John Salmon, the Commissioner for Lands and Surveys, in 1936. Several editions were published in the 1940s, some including revisions with new information supplied by the government's Department of Antiquities. After Israel captured East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967, the Survey of Israel republished the map in both English and Hebrew in 1967 and 1970. These later editions are quite rare in either language, with the Hebrew editions only being listed among the holdings of Harvard University and the National Library of Israel.