The Yellow Submarine is a prominent music venue located on Harkavim Street in the Talpiot industrial zone of Jerusalem. Established in nineteen ninety-one through a collaboration between the Jerusalem Foundation, the Jerusalem…
Jerusalem's Soundscape
This route traces Jerusalem's rich musical history across generations, highlighting performing arts centers, ancient concert reservoirs, active recording studios, and underground indie venues.
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1. Yellow Submarine
2. Jerusalem Theatre
The Jerusalem Theatre in the Talbiyeh neighborhood is defined by its dramatic fusion of exposed concrete and traditional Jerusalem stone. Opened in nineteen seventy-one, the center began as a single auditorium, the Sherover Theatre, but it…
3. Beit-HaAm Event Hall - Gerard Behar Hall
The Beit HaAm Cultural Hall, also known as the Gerard Behar Center, sits at eleven Bezalel Street. Its facade of hewn stone and modern glass walls marks the entrance to a site that functions as a hub for dance, music, and independent…
4. Music Square
Music Square, or Kikar HaMusika, is a paved plaza distinguished by its consistent use of pale Jerusalem stone and a central performance platform. Tucked into the historic Nahalat Shiva neighborhood, the square was transformed from a…
5. Mazkeka
Mazkeka occupies a modest, narrow space on Shushan Street, tucked away in the center of the city. Known to locals as a hub for Jerusalem’s independent and alternative art scene, the venue functions as both a café and a nightly stage for…
6. Jerusalem International YMCA
The Jerusalem International YMCA is distinguished by a one hundred and fifty-two-foot observation tower that rises above a complex of domes and arches. Dedicated in nineteen thirty-three, the building was designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon,…
7. Jerusalem Music Centre
The Jerusalem Music Centre is housed within one of the two long, original stone buildings of Mishkenot Sha’ananim, the first Jewish neighborhood established outside the Old City walls in eighteen sixty. You can identify the site by its…
8. Mitchell Park
Mitchell Park is a green space stretching along the slopes below the historic neighborhood of Yemin Moshe and the Old City walls. The land it occupies was once a no man's land that marked the international border between Israel and Jordan…
9. Zedekiah's Cave
Zedekiah’s Cave is a vast, five-acre limestone quarry extending beneath the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. Its entrance sits directly beneath the Old City wall, positioned between the Damascus and Herod Gates. While its mouth is a…