What Jerusalem location was part of the naming of the city where the National Naval Medical Center stands?
Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda. In Aramaic, ܒܝܬ ܚܣܕܐ "beth ḥesda" means "House of Mercy" and in Hebrew, "beit ḥesed" means "House of Kindness". The National Institutes of Health main campus and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center are in Bethesda, as are a number of corporate and government headquarters.
Western Wall The Western Wall, Wailing Wall or Kotel (Hebrew: , translit.: "HaKotel HaMa'aravi "; Ashkenazic pronunciation: "HaKosel HaMa'arovi"; Arabic: حائط البراق‎ ‎ , translit.: "Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq", translat.: the Buraq Wall, or Arabic: المبكى‎ ‎ "al-Mabkā": the Place of Weeping) is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, known also in its entirety as the "Western Wall". The wall was originally erected as part of the expansion of the Second Jewish Temple begun by Herod the Great, which resulted in the encasement of the natural, steep hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount, in a large rectangular structure topped by a huge flat platform, thus creating more space for the Temple itself and its auxiliary buildings.