Jeruzalė


Jeruzalė is a under the administration of the Verkiai eldersip. It is located just north of the Vilnius city center, neighboring with , Verkiai,, and,approximately bordered by the Mokslininkų street in the north, in the west, Ateities street in the south, and the Jeruzalė street in the east.

History

The area was named after Jerusalem in the second half of the 17th century when a church and a Dominican monastery were built there on the land allocated from the Verkiai manor belonged to the diocese of Vilnius. Eventually it became a small village in the suburbs of Vilnius known under the Polish name Jerozolimka. In 1866 the settlement Jerozolima-Werki had 8 households with 55 residents. In the interwar period it had Jewish population, in addition to Poles. It was incorporated into Vilnius in 1930. First Lithuanian residents came to Jerozolimka in the wake of World War II.

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