The Bukharan Quarter (Hebrew: שכונת הבוכרים, Shkhunat HaBukharim), also HaBukharim Quarter or Bukharim Quarter,[a] is a neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, Israel. The neighborhood was established by Bukharan Jews of the Old Yishuv. The neighborhood also anchored communities from modern-day Afghanistan and the Iranian city of Meshad.[citation needed] It belonged to the early Jewish neighborhoods built outside the Old City of Jerusalem as part of a process which began in the 1850s.[1] Today most of the residents are Haredi Jews.[2]
The quarter borders Tel Arza on the west, the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood on the north, Arzei HaBira on the east, and Geula on the south.[citation needed]
The current Chief Rabbi of the Bukharan Quarter is Rabbi Shlomo Kassin.[3]
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- ^ Kark, Ruth; Oren-Nordheim, Michal (2001). Jerusalem and Its Environs: Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800-1948. Israel studies in historical geography. Wayne State University Press. pp. 74, table on p.82–86 (see 84). ISBN 9780814329092. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ The Moussaieff Synagogue, a Relic of Bukhara in Jerusalem, Haaretz
- ^ "Haskamot – Letters of Approbation". Yehi Shalom. 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2023-01-02.