Montefiore Windmill

Montefiore Windmill
Montefiore Windmill, 30 March 2016
Origin
Mill name	Montefiore Mill Jaffa Gate Mill
Mill location	Jerusalem
Coordinates	31°46′17.31″N 35°13′27.03″E / 31.7714750°N 35.2241750°E / 31.7714750; 35.2241750
Year built	1857
Information
Purpose	Flour mill
Type	Tower mill
Storeys	Four storeys
No. of sails	Four sails
Type of sails	Patent sails
Windshaft	Cast iron
Winding	Fantail
Fantail blades	Six blades
Auxiliary power	Electric motor
No. of pairs of millstones	Two pairs

The Montefiore Windmill is a landmark windmill in Jerusalem. Designed as a flour mill, it was built in 1857 on a slope opposite the western city walls of Jerusalem, where three years later the new Jewish neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim was erected, both by the efforts of British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore. Jerusalem at the time was part of Ottoman-ruled Palestine. Today the windmill serves as a small museum dedicated to the achievements of Montefiore. It was restored in 2012 with a new cap and sails in the style of the originals. The mill can turn in the wind.