Jabal al-Ashrafieh ( Arabic : جبل الأشرفية , often called al-Ashrafiyah or simply Ashrafiya ) is a town and neighbourhood in Amman , Jordan . Located in East Amman , it is the highest point in the city and it features many services, such as schools, restaurants, and shopfronts.
28-576: Al-Ashrafiyah (also spelled Ashrafiyah , Ashrafiyye , Ashrafiyeh , Ashrafiyya , or Achrafieh ) is an Arabic word that could refer to the following places: Jordan [ edit ] Ashrafiyah, Amman [ ar ] , a neighborhood in Amman and the highest point in the city Ashrafiyah, Irbid [ ar ] , a neighborhood in Irbid Ashrafiyah, Mafraq [ ar ] ,
56-723: A circumference of 112 meters. In the same year of 1881, the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag created and established the Panorama Mesdag of The Hague , Netherlands , a cylindrical painting more than 14 metres high and roughly 40 meters in diameter (120 meters in circumference). In the United States of America is the Atlanta Cyclorama , depicting the Civil War Battle of Atlanta . It
84-414: A brief, but intense civil war. The conflict between Palestinians and Jordanians was so pernicious that Jordanian army officers had to change into civilian apparel in order to enter Ashrafiyah to avoid being assaulted in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood . In 2009, al-Ashrafia had a population of 8,200. In 2010, the population density of the town, combined with the surrounding neighbourhoods,
112-604: A means of generating an immersive " panoptic " experience of a vista . Cartographic experiments during the Enlightenment era preceded European panorama painting and contributed to a formative impulse toward panoramic vision and depiction. This novel perspective was quickly conveyed to America by Benjamin Franklin who was present for the first manned balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, and by
140-623: A neighborhood in Mafraq Lebanon [ edit ] Achrafieh , a district of Beirut Palestine [ edit ] Al-Ashrafiyya , a depopulated Palestinian village in Galilee near Baysan Syria [ edit ] Ashrafiyah, Hama , a village in al-Suqaylabiyah district near Hama Ashrafiyah, Homs , a village near Homs Ashrafiyat Sahnaya , a village in the Darayya district near Damascus Ashrafiyat al-Wadi ,
168-431: A painting, shown on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside, giving viewers a vantage point encompassing the entire circle of the horizon, rendering the original scene with high fidelity. The inaugural exhibition, a "View of Edinburgh" (specifically the view from the summit of Calton Hill ), was first shown in that city in 1788, then transported to London in 1789. By 1793, Barker had built "The Panorama" rotunda at
196-641: A variety of constructions can be used to make panoramic images. A popular design is the "oatmeal box", a vertical cylindrical container in which the pinhole is made in one side and the film or photographic paper is wrapped around the inside wall opposite, and extending almost right to the edge of, the pinhole. This generates an egg-shaped image with more than 180° view. Popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but now superseded by digital presentation software, Multi-image (also known as multi-image slide presentations, slide shows or diaporamas) 35mm slide projections onto one or more screens characteristically lent themselves to
224-517: A village in the Qudsaya district near Damascus Khanazir , also known as Ashrafiya, a village in Masyaf district near Hama See also [ edit ] Ashrafiyya (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
252-544: Is also the Abu Darwish Mosque, a branch of the Amman Municipality built in 1961, which is notable for its checkered black-and-white pattern, and having an architectural style that is unique to Jordan. The Armenian community in al-Ashrafiya is the second largest Christian community of Jordan. In 2019, there were around 5,000 Armenians in the area, most of whom are descendants of those who fled
280-499: Is derived from panorama . A panoramic view is also purposed for multimedia, cross-scale applications to an outline overview (from a distance) along and across repositories. This so-called "cognitive panorama" is a panoramic view over, and a combination of, cognitive spaces used to capture the larger scale. The device of the panorama existed in painting, particularly in murals , as early as 20 A.D., in those found in Pompeii , as
308-590: The 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight , many Palestinian people settled in Ashrafiya, living in tents across the city. Today, the neighbourhood contains a number of churches, including an Assyrian Church , an Armenian Church ( Saint Thaddeus Armenian Apostolic Church ), an Armenian Catholic Church , and St Paul's Church, which is an Anglican church that is under the responsibility of an Iraqi Muslim that redistributes medicine, in addition to teaching English and music to children and adults alike. There
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#1732776062298336-703: The Ottoman Empire during the 1915 Armenian Genocide . The next wave of Armenian refugees settled in Jordan after the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948, where there were around 10,000 Armenian inhabitants in the area. In 1962, the first Armenian church (St Thaddeus Church) and school were established. From the 1970s and onwards, the Armenians in the area gradually began to immigrate to the United States, Canada and Australia. Armenians living in
364-672: The Panoscan allows the capture of high resolution panoramic images and eliminates the need for image stitching , but immersive "spherical" panorama movies (that incorporate a full 180° vertical viewing angle as well as 360° around) must be made by stitching multiple images. Stitching images together can be used to create extremely high resolution gigapixel panoramic images. On rare occasions, 360° panoramic movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces—typically at theme parks , world's fairs , and museums. Starting in 1955, Disney has created 360° theaters for its parks and
392-530: The Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, features a theatre that is a large cylindrical space with an arrangement of screens whose bottom is several metres above the floor. Panoramic systems that are less than 360° around also exist. For example, Cinerama used a very wide curved screen, with three synchronized projectors, and IMAX Dome / OMNIMAX movies are projected on a dome above
420-526: The American-born physician, John Jeffries who had joined French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard on flights over England and the first aerial crossing of the English Channel in 1785. In the mid-19th century, panoramic paintings and models became a very popular way to represent landscapes , topographic views and historical events . Audiences of Europe in this period were thrilled by
448-633: The area today still preserve their culture; they have an Armenian elementary school, a kindergarten and Armenian pizzerias . In September 1970, Jordan permitted Palestinian military forces to operate independently in Amman. But the Palestinians ' disappointment at not being able to claim the West Bank turned against Jordan. Thereafter, the Palestinians in Jordan battled Jordanian soldiers in
476-516: The aspect of illusion, immersed in a winding 360-degree panorama and given the impression of standing in a new environment. The panorama was a 360-degree visual medium patented under the title Apparatus for Exhibiting Pictures by the artist Robert Barker in 1787. The earliest that the word "panorama" appeared in print was on June 11, 1791, in the British newspaper The Morning Chronicle , referring to this visual spectacle. Barker created
504-492: The center of London's entertainment district in Leicester Square , where it remained attracting visitors for 70 years, then closing in 1863, before being converted into the church of Notre Dame de France . Inventor Sir Francis Ronalds developed a machine to remove errors in perspective that were created when a sequence of planar sketches was combined into a cylinder. It also projected the cylindrical drawing onto
532-510: The city center, Al-Masdar, and the ancient Roman amphitheater , due to its high elevation. In Arabic, " ashrafiya " means 'honorable one' and " jabal " translates to 'mountain', as the area is very hilly with precipitous, serpentine streets and steep staircases that wind through the area, some of which that lead to downtown Amman . In 2020, the Harra rejuvenation strategy, based on the physical, environmental, educational and social aspects of
560-608: The community, has successfully revitalized area in a span of 12 years. Established in 2008, a Community Development Center exists in the town, which specializes in community mobilization , law issues and reducing inequality in the area. The Jordan National Red Crescent Society is headquartered in the town. The town features two prominent hospitals, Al-Bashir Hospital and the Italian Hospital. Medical research has occurred in Al-Bashir Hospital. After
588-531: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashrafiya&oldid=1104202020 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ashrafiyah, Amman The town is renowned for its mosques and churches , in addition to being encircled by many historical buildings. Other spelling variants and forms of
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#1732776062298616-497: The most common method for creating wide views. Not long after the introduction of the Daguerreotype in 1839, photographers began assembling multiple images of a view into a single wide image. In the late 19th century, flexible film enabled the construction of panoramic cameras using curved film holders and clockwork drives to rotate the lens in an arc and thus scan an image encompassing almost 180 degrees. Pinhole cameras of
644-536: The panorama format. A vertical panorama or vertorama is a panorama with an upright orientation instead of a horizontal. It is created using the same techniques as when making a horizontal panorama. Digital photography of the late twentieth century greatly simplified this assembly process, which is now known as image stitching . Such stitched images may even be fashioned into forms of virtual reality movies, using technologies such as QuickTime VR , Flash , Java , or even JavaScript . A rotating line camera such as
672-609: The town's name include, Ashrafia , Ashrafieh , Jabal al-Ashrafiyah , Jebel Ashrafiya and Jebel El Ashrafiya . Jabal al-Ashrafieh is a hill station that is divided into several areas, the most important of which are the Ashrafieh circuit and the Armenian neighborhood named Hay Al-Arman (حي الأرمن). A large shopping square is present. It is also close to the Al-Wahdat area and has Barto Street, which panoramically overlooks
700-559: The wall of the rotunda at much larger scale to enable its accurate painting. The apparatus was exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in the early 1840s. Large scale installations enhance the illusion for an audience of being surrounded with a real landscape. The Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne , Switzerland was created by Edouard Castres in 1881. The painting measures about 10 metres in height with
728-408: The wide screen panorama. They could run autonomously with silent synchronization pulses to control projector advance and fades, recorded beside an audio voice-over or music track . Precisely overlapping slides placed in slide mounts with soft-edge density masks would merge seamlessly on the screen to create the panorama. Cutting and dissolving between sequential images generated animation effects in
756-734: Was first displayed in 1887, and is 42 feet high by 358 feet circumference (13 × 109 metres). Also on a gigantic scale, and still extant, is the Racławice Panorama (1893) located in Wrocław , Poland , which measures 15 × 120 metres. In addition to these historical examples, there have been panoramas painted and installed in modern times; prominent among these is the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles, California (2004). Panoramic photography soon came to displace painting as
784-542: Was over 20,000 inhabitants per square kilometre. Panorama A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting , drawing , photography , film , seismic images , or 3D modeling . The word was coined in the 18th century by the English ( Irish descent ) painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London . The motion-picture term panning
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