page_title: Pool of Siloam
hierarchical_section_title: Pool of Siloam
caption_attribution_description: English: Pool of Siloam and Lower (Old) Pool in the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
context_page_description: The Pool of Siloam refers to a number of rock-cut pools on the southern slope of the City of David / Wadi Hilweh, considered by some archaeologists to be the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. The pools were fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts.
  The Lower Pool or "Old Pool" was historically known as Birket el Hamra, literally "the red pool".
context_section_description: The Pool of Siloam (Arabic: بركه سلوان‎, Hebrew: בריכת השילוח, Breikhat HaShiloah) refers to a number of rock-cut pools on the southern slope of the City of David / Wadi Hilweh, considered by some archaeologists to be the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. The pools were fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts.
  The Lower Pool or "Old Pool" was historically known as Birket el Hamra, literally "the red pool".
caption: The Pool of Siloam and Lower (Old) Pool in the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
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