page_title: Straus Street
section_title: Other points of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Straus Street / Other points of interest
caption_attribution_description: Nebi Akasha Mosque, located between Straus Street and Yeshayahu Street, Jerusalem
context_page_description: Straus Street is a north-south road in north-central Jerusalem. It starts at Jaffa Road and extends to Kikar HaShabbat, which marks the intersection of five streets: Straus Street, Yeshayahu Street, Malkhei Yisrael Street, Yehezkel Street, and Mea Shearim Road. The street was named for Nathan Straus, a prominent American merchant and Jewish philanthropist in the early twentieth century.
context_section_description: On the west side of Straus Street, behind the Histadrut building, stands a nineteenth-century mosque and minaret named Nebi Akasha. The mosque has not functioned as such since the 1948 War of Independence, and is used by the Jerusalem municipality to store gardening supplies. A short distance from the mosque is the twelfth-century tomb of Nebi Akasha Bin Mohsin, one of the disciples of the Prophet Muhammad. Between the mosque and the tomb is a small park named Turbat Qameria.
  The apartment building on the northwest corner of Straus Street at Jaffa Road was one of the beneficiaries of a full-size mural painted by the Cite’ Cre’ation company of France. Beginning in 1999, the Jerusalem municipality contracted Cite’ Cre’ation's street artists to spruce up poor and rundown parts of the city center with the realistic painting technique called trompe-l'œil. The Straus Street mural, painted in 2001, depicts the futuristic Jerusalem Light Rail running along Jaffa Road.
caption: Nebi Akasha Mosque
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