HISTORICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY: The house in 15 Dustai St.
05/2017
The exhibition Old Qatamon: Live Archive is hosted in a new building erected on the property of an original Palestinian house whose story is interweaved with the story of the neighborhood. The construction of the neighborhood began in the 1920s; it stretches east of St. Simeon Monastery, which probably gave it its name: in Greek, kata tōi monastēriōi means “under the monastery”. After the First World War, the Greek Orthodox Church began selling off properties, including lands around the St. Simeon Monastery, first sold in large blocks to members of the religious community, and then to other communities.
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