A brief introduction to the Seventh-day Adventist Guest House in East Jerusalem and glimpses of the city around it. Originally built more than a century ago as the residence for an Ottoman Turkish official, the remodeled home, now the Jerusalem Center, welcomes visiting groups from all over the world. Its comfortable beds accommodate up to 30 persons in a noncommercial home-like atmosphere.
Visitors enjoy delicious meals together, share interesting experiences, and pray together.
Purple grapes hang heavy among green leaves above the heads of relaxed guests while they relish its shelter from the warm August sun. A gracious limestone stairway leads upward to the guest rooms and a paneled lecture room for discussions and times of worship. This walled patio stands at the heart of activities at the Jerusalem Center. Here visitors enjoy outdoor meals on its stone floor, enjoy the blooming plants, and savor the powerful evening aroma of a climbing jasmine. Here is Middle Eastern hospitality in a format that will never be forgotten.