Jerusalem Views On Stamps

Syria, 1998 - Dome of the Rock and Old City.

Jordan, commemorating Pope Paul's visit to the Holy Land 4 Jan 1964, two FDCs:


15 fils Al Aqsa Mosque/ 35 fils Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar)

50 fils Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem/ 80 fils Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

Street art in Mahane Yehuda market of Jerusalem, issued by Israel on September 10, 2024:

The Mayer Museum for Islamic Art is an art museum in Jerusalem, established in 1974. The museum houses Islamic pottery, textiles, jewelry, ceremonial objects and other Islamic cultural artifacts and a rare clocks collection.

This set of stamps was issued by Israel on October 31, 1978 shows three artworks exhibited in the museum:

Sundials in Jerusalem, issued by Israel on December 16, 2014:

Old sundial in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, 1st century:

Sundial of Zoharei Chama Synagogue of Jerusalem, 1908:

Queen of Sheba's Visit to King Solomon of Israel in Jerusalem:

The Queen of Sheba ruled the ancient kingdom of Sheba. The location of the historical kingdom included part of modern day Eritrea, Ethiopia and Yemen. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Queen of Sheba journeyed King Solomon of Israel with gifts of spices, gold and precious stones. She tested King Solomon with questions to verify his great wisdom.

Queen of Sheba's Visit, issued by the Kingdom of Yemen in 1967:

King Solomon of Israel and Queen of Sheba:

Queen of Sheba's ship and a map showing the route of the convoy's journey from Sheba to Jerusalem:

Queen of Sheba's canopy:

Queen of Sheba's convoy to Israel:

Queen of Sheba meets King Solomon of Israel:

"King Solomon's Judgment" by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665):

The Solomon's Wall (?):
According to Michel catalog, this stamp wasn't issued since it depicts (by mistake?) the Wailing Wall, called also the Western Wall, the most sacred place to the Jewish people. Any way, there is a design mistakes in this stamp: the Wailing Wall is the ruin of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Roman many centuries after the reign of King Solomon. Second mistake, Solomon Wall is not the Wailing Wall; it is a section of wall south of the Temple Mount.

To celebrate the opening of the new zoo of Jerusalem (and the zoological garden of Tel Aviv), Israel issued on September 17, 1992 a set of four animal stamps. Two of them shows a Chimpanzee and a Lion in Jerusalem zoo.

The stamps were issued in a special sheet contains three copies of the set. Here are the sheet and FDC of it:


a nice commemorative postmark shows the chimp and the lion of Jerusalem zoo:

Maxicard of the Chimp stamp:

Old postal system in Jerusalem;

- Post Office building in Jerusalem in the 19th century and a mail coach of the time.
- Present Main Post Office building in Jerusalem and a postal van used in 1954.
Stamps issued by Israel on October 13, 1954:

Austrian post mail box on the background of the old post office of Jerusalem, Ottoman period, issued by Israel on December 14, 2004:

Austrian post in Jerusalem on the background of Jaffa Gate of the old city of Jerusalem, issued by Israel on May 13, 2013:

Issued in SS. On the margin, beneath the stamp, a postmark used by the Austrian post in Jerusalem:

Jerusalem views on ATM stamps issued by Israel:

Tower of David, old city of Jerusalem, 1994 & 2006:


Church of the Holy Sepulchre, old city of Jerusalem, 1994:

The Knesset, the Israeli parliament building, 1997 & 2010:

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, old city of Jerusalem, ATM issued in 2014 to commemorate the visit of Pope Francis in the Holy Land:

Maxicard with commemorative FD postmark, front and back:


Commemorative FD postmark shows the church:

Tower of David and the old city of Jerusalem walls on a stamp issued by Israel on September 10, 2024 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Yamam, national counter terrorism unit.

During years 1986-1990, Israel issued a series of nine definitive stamps about "Archaeology in Jerusalem". The stamps were designed by Eliezer Weishoff. Here they are.

- Capital, second Temple, 1st century CE
- Capital, second Temple, 1st century BCE

- Relief, second Temple, 1st century BCE
- Byzantine capital, 6th century, CE

- Relief, end of second temple period, 1st century, CE
- Islamic relief, 8th century, CE

- Crusader capital, 12-13th century, CE
- Ottoman relief, 16th century, CE

- Mamluk relief, 14th century, CE

Here are three of the many Iraqi stamps from Saddam Hussein's time, portraying the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
1999 2001 2002

Many thanks, Barbour, for sharing the Iraqi stamps show the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Actually, almost all Arab countries issued stamps show this mosque, mainly to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people. Several of them were posted in the previous pages of this thread by Outremer01 and by me.

Beside Arab countries, there are other non Arab countries issued stamps with the Dome of the Rock like: Guinea, Maldives Islands, Madagascar and of course, by Iran which issued tens of them.

Here is an example of the Dome of the Rock on a set issued by Yemen Arab Republic on October 20, 1982 to publicize the Palestinian Children Day.

The Umm Leisun inscription is an early medieval Georgian limestone tombstone slab, discovered in the Umm Leisun neighborhood of Jerusalem. Dating to the 5th or 6th century CE, it is one of the oldest known Georgian inscriptions outside of Georgia. The inscription, written in the ancient Georgian Asomtavruli script, commemorates the construction or renovation of a Christian monastery. It provides evidence of the presence of Georgian monks and pilgrims in Jerusalem during the Byzantine period, highlighting Georgia's historical connections to the Holy Land.

The Umm Leisun inscription, issued by Israel on December 20, 2022.