Augusta Victoria Hospital

31°47′12″N 35°14′57″E / 31.78667°N 35.24917°E / 31.78667; 35.24917

The Augusta Victoria Compound is a community hospital and church complex on the northern side of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem; the hospital is one of six which form the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network. The compound was built in 1907–1914 by the Empress Augusta Victoria Foundation as a centre for the German Protestant community in Ottoman Palestine, in addition to the slightly older Church of the Redeemer from Jerusalem's Old City. Apart from the hospital, today the complex also includes the German Protestant Church of the Ascension with a c. 50 metre high belltower, a meeting centre for pilgrims and tourists, an interreligious kindergarten and a café, as well as the Jerusalem branch of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology.

Throughout much of its history, the compound was used first and foremost as a hospital, either by the military (during the First and Second World Wars and during the initial years of Jordanian rule), or for Palestinian refugees and general public (from 1950 until today), and at times also as a government or military headquarters - by the Ottoman authorities during WWI and after them by the British authorities (1915–1927).

Today, Augusta Victoria Hospital provides specialty care for Palestinians from across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with services including a cancer centre, a dialysis unit, and a pediatric centre. It is the second largest hospital in East Jerusalem, as well as the sole remaining specialised care unit located in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.