Zikhron Tuvya

Zikhron Tuvya (Hebrew: זכרון טוביה‎, Recollection of [God's] Goodness), also spelled Zichron Tuvia, is a former courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. Founded in 1890, it was the twenty-third Jewish neighborhood to be established outside the Old City walls. The neighborhood consisted of parallel row-houses facing each other across a wide street, today named Zikhron Tuvya Street. Initially populated by tradesmen and workshops, it became a residential neighborhood after the 1920s. It is now part of the larger Nachlaot neighborhood.

The name of the neighborhood is taken from the biblical verse:

The name could also have been a tribute to Rabbi Tuvya Gedalia Freund, the Rav of one of the neighborhood founders, Mechel Leib Katz, and "an expression of gratitude" to Rabbi Yosef Rivlin, the chief founder of this and many other Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Zikhron Tuvya was bordered by the Mahane Yehuda Market to the north, the Ohel Moshe neighborhood to the east, the Shevet Ahim neighborhood to the south, and the Nahalat Zion neighborhood to the west.

Zikhron Tuvya was founded in 1890. It was the twenty-third Jewish neighborhood established outside the Old City Walls, and the eleventh neighborhood founded by Yosef Rivlin. Other founders included Rabbis Nota Zvi Hamburger, David Boymgarten, Shmuel Zukerman, and Mechel Leib Katz. Moshe Meltzer Kantrowitz purchased the land from the Arabs of Lifta.

The initial plan called for the construction of 100 homes, but in the end only 30 to 40 were completed. The neighborhood, designed by Conrad Schick, was laid out as two parallel rows of single-family houses fronted by small courtyards, with the entrances to the houses facing each other across a wide expanse.

By 1897 the neighborhood had 30 houses. A 1916 survey reported 92 houses and 298 residents in Zikhron Tuvya.

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