Jeruzalė

54°44′35″N 25°16′41″E / 54.743°N 25.278°E / 54.743; 25.278

Jeruzalė ("Jerusalem" in Lithuanian) is a neighborhood of Vilnius [lt] under the administration of the Verkiai eldersip (lt:Verkių seniūnija). It is located just north of the Vilnius city center, neighboring with Santariškės [lt], Verkiai, Baltupiai [lt], and Visoriai [lt],^[1]approximately bordered by the Mokslininkų ("Scientists") street in the north, Iron Wolf street [lt] in the west, Ateities street in the south, and the Jeruzalė street in the east.

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.^[1] Eventually it became a small village in the suburbs of Vilnius known under the Polish name Jerozolimka (Russian: Ерозолимка within the Russian Empire). In 1866 the settlement Jerozolima-Werki^[a] (a.k.a. Jarozolimka) had 8 households with 55 residents.^[2] In the interwar period it had Jewish population, in addition to Poles.^[3] It was incorporated into Vilnius in 1930.^[1] First Lithuanian residents came to Jerozolimka in the wake of World War II.^[4]

• Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross, Vilnius
• Jeruzalė Sculpture Garden [lt]
• Jeruzalė Pond [lt]