Marie Balian's Glimpse of Paradise

Face the central post office on Jaffa Street. To your left is a government building graced by lion doors designed by one of the early Bezalel artists. Farther to your left are steps leading down to Koresh Street. Turn left along that small and unprepossessing street and look right and a little back to see Marie Balian's huge tile mural "A Glimpse of Paradise" ( http://www.tau.ac.il/~kenaank/balian_wall.html ). Balian is the scion of one of the Armenian families of tile artists brought to Jerusalem by Ronald Storrs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Storrs ) in the early 1920s. The families continue their craft tradition today.

Copyright 2013 Jane Schulzinger Fox