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| Established | 1967 |
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| Location | 6 Or HaChaim Street Jewish Quarter Jerusalem, Israel |
| Coordinates | 31°46′31.1″N 35°13′49.0″E / 31.775306°N 35.230278°E |
| Type | Ethnographic museum |
| Website | www |
The Old Yishuv Courtyard Museum is an ethnographic museum on Or HaHaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem. It showcases the traditional lifestyle of the Jewish Old Yishuv community during the late Ottoman and Mandatory periods, leading up to the fall of the Jewish Quarter to the Jordanian army in the 1948 War of Independence.[1]
The museum complex includes the Ari Synagogue, an old Sephardic synagogue associated with and named after 16th century kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria. Another part of the complex, on the second floor, houses the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue, which was formerly used by the Italian and Sephardic communities and now follows Ashkenazi nusach, though it is not part of the museum and has a separate entrance.[1]