Pool of Siloam

Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem

Survey of Palestine

The Pool of Siloam and Lower (Old) Pool

The term Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: בְּרֵכַת הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, Bərēḵat haŠīlōaḥ, Arabic: بِرْكَة سِلْوَان‎ Birka Silwān) refers to a number of rock-cut pools on the southern slope of the Wadi Hilweh, located outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem to the southeast. The pools were fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by the Siloam Tunnel.^[1][2]

The Lower Pool or "Old Pool" was historically known as Birket el Hamra, literally "the red pool".