Jerusalem Prayer Center September Hours:
10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday, closed on Saturday & Sunday
Reservations are not required. For large group reservations, please contact the JPC office prior to the visit:+972-02-626-1439 or email contact@jerusalemprayercenter.com
Welcome.
The Jerusalem Prayer Center is a Christian house of prayer for the nations. The JPC’s historic buildings and beautiful gardens offer a peaceful and worshipful place to spend time in prayer with the Lord. The JPC welcomes individuals, families, and tour groups from all over the world to come and pray, whether it be for a few minutes or a few hours. After time spent in prayer, guests are welcomed into the JPC kitchen to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea with a member of the JPC Ministry Team. It is often a sweet time of sharing “God stories” and encouraging one another in the faith. The team is always ready and willing to pray with and for guests.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10
The JPC Upper Room is a quiet, peaceful, interactive prayer space, with Scripture-based banners on the theme of God’s love (in English, Hebrew, and Arabic) displayed throughout the room. Journals, an art table, a bowl of water, kneeling benches, a world map, and videos, along with the banners are there to help guests enter into a sweet time of conversation and encounter with the Lord- through praise, confession, and intercession.
“The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.” Psalm 145:18, ESV
Guests are invited to pray for the nations along the blue tiled “Continent Walk.” Flowering vines growing on the main gazebo provide an inviting space to drink coffee, read Scripture and pray. A flagstone path leads guests to the Deuteronomy 8:8 Garden, where guests can walk and talk with the Lord, or sit and pray on benches among the olive trees, pomegranate trees, fig trees, and date palms. Guests can see the wheat growing, along with almond trees and jasmine and roses and lavender. It is a beautiful and fragrant place to contemplate God’s loving goodness.
“a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees, and pomegranates, and a land of olive trees and honey.” Deuteronomy 8:8, ESV
A unique, interactive prayer room designed especially for children and their parents to spend time together as a family, learning and praying. Each month features a new Bible story and prayer theme with related activities. As families explore outside in the JPC Gardens, the children will also discover a prayer watchtower and a large outdoor chalkboard.
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children…” Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV
History
The house was built by an Arab family in 1890, one of the first homes built outside the Jerusalem old city walls near the Damascus Gate, during the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In 1905 it became part of the American Colony as the home of Bertha Spafford Vester, with her husband and children. Bertha’s father was Horatio Spafford, who is often remembered for the hymn, “It is Well with my Soul.” In 1930, it became the home of Lewis Larrson and his wife. Lewis was an accomplished photographer, and also the honorary Consul General of Sweden, making the home, for a time, the Swedish Consulate. At the end of the British Mandate, as the Green Line was drawn, the JPC stood on the Jordanian side of Arab East Jerusalem until 1967. It was sold a final time in 1969 and became a location of various Christian works…culminating in 2008 with the official dedication of the Jerusalem Prayer Center. The JPC property history and location make it a unique and special place to pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
The house was built by an Arab family in 1890, one of the first homes built outside the Jerusalem old city walls near the Damascus Gate, during the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In 1905 it became part of the American Colony as the home of Bertha Spafford Vester, with her husband and children. Bertha’s father was Horatio Spafford, who is often remembered for the hymn, “It is Well with my Soul.” In 1930, it became the home of Lewis Larrson and his wife. Lewis was an accomplished photographer, and also the honorary Consul General of Sweden, making the home, for a time, the Swedish Consulate. At the end of the British Mandate, as the Green Line was drawn, the JPC stood on the Jordanian side of Arab East Jerusalem until 1967. It was sold a final time in 1969 and became a location of various Christian works…culminating in 2008 with the official dedication of the Jerusalem Prayer Center. The JPC property history and location make it a unique and special place to pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
location
Nablus Rd 76, Jerusalem
contact
Phone : +972-02-626-1439
contact@jerusalemprayercenter.com
JPC hours
10:00 - 17:00
Monday - Friday
Closed on Saturday & Sunday
* Ring the bell inside the right edge of the font gate
2023/2024 Calendar
23 November 2023 - CLOSED
23-26 December 2023 - CLOSED
15 March - CLOSED
22 March - CLOSED
29 March - CLOSED
5 April - CLOSED
Get in touch
Nablus Rd 76, Jerusalem
Phone : +972-02-626-1439
contact@jerusalemprayercenter.com
15 March – ClOSED
22 March – CLOSED
29 March -CLOSED
5 April – CLOSED