Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem

Mount Zion Cemetery
בית הקברות הפרוטסטנטי בהר ציון Zionsfriedhof
Details
Established	1848
Location	Aravna haYevusi No. 3, Mount Zion, Jerusalem (access through Jerusalem University College campus)
Coordinates	31°46′13″N 35°13′41″E / 31.7704°N 35.2281°E / 31.7704; 35.2281
Type	Protestant cemetery Anglican, Lutheran, and Presbyterian
Owned by	Church Missionary Trust Association Ltd., London
Find a Grave	Mount Zion Cemetery

The Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery (a.k.a., Jerusalem Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery, German: Zionsfriedhof; Hebrew: בית הקברות הפרוטסטנטי בהר ציון) on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, is a cemetery owned by the Anglican Church Missionary Trust Association Ltd., London, represented by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and The Middle East.^[1] In 1848 Samuel Gobat, Bishop of Jerusalem, opened the cemetery and dedicated it as ecumenical graveyard for congregants of Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and old Catholic faith. Since its original beneficiary, the Bishopric of Jerusalem was maintained as a joint venture of the Anglican Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Prussia, a united Protestant Landeskirche of Lutheran and Reformed congregations, until 1886, the Jerusalem Lutheran congregation preserved a right to bury congregants there also after the Jerusalem Bishopric had become a solely Anglican diocese.