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Photos from Amman New Camp: http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/jordan/images/talbieh.jpg
AmmanNewCamp, known locally as Wihdat, was one of the four camps established after 1948 to accommodate Palestine refugees who left Palestine as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
The camp was set up in 1955 for some 5,000 refugees on an area of 488,000 square metres south east of Amman.
Over the years the refugees have added more rooms to improve their shelters and the camp has grown into an urban-like quarter surrounded by areas of high population density.
Amman stayed a small city until 1948, by which time the population had grown considerably large as a result of the influx of Palestinian refugees.
Amman was highly influenced by the Dutch Mennonite beliefs, and instituted the practice of feet washing in connection with communion, which was not practiced by the Swiss Mennonites.
AmmanNewCamp, locally known as Wihdat, is the second largest refugee camp in Jordan with a population of 49,805 registered refugees 2002.
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