Jacob’s Well
Jacob's Well, also known as Jacob's Fountain or the Well of Sychar, is a Christian holy site located in Balata village, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Biblical place at the West Bank
- Also known as: “Bi’r Ya‘qūb”, “Bi’r Ya’qub”, “Bir Samariyah”, and “Bir Yakoub”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Joseph’s Tomb and Mount Gerizim.
Joseph’s Tomb
Synagogue
Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.
Joseph's Tomb is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 m northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus. Joseph’s Tomb is situated 410 metres north of Jacob’s Well.
Mount Gerizim
Peak
Photo: יאיר דב, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Gerizim is one of two mountains near the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem, located in the north of Palestine’s West Bank.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balata Camp and Kiryat Luza.
Balata Camp
Town
Photo: Hoshvilim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balata Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts of the city of Nablus. Balata Camp had a population of 14,635 in 2017.
Kiryat Luza
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kiryat Luza is a village situated on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank. It is within Area B of the West Bank, and as a result is under the joint control of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, and is the only remaining site populated wholly by Samaritans.
Askar RC (al-Qadeem)
Village
Photo: Qusay.khateeb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Askar is a Palestinian refugee camp. It is located on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus and was established in 1950 on 119 dunums of land. Residents of the camp refer to this as “New Askar”.
Jacob’s Well
- Categories: sanctuary, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Jacob’s Well” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بئر يعقوب”
- Armenian: “Իակովի ջրհոր”
- Armenian: “Հակոբի ջրհոր”
- Catalan: “Pou de Jacob”
- Chinese: “雅各井”
- Dutch: “Jacob’s Well”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بئر يعقوب”
- French: “Puits de Jacob”
- German: “Jakobsbrunnen”
- Greek: “Φρέαρ του Ιακώβ”
- Hebrew: “באר יעקב (שכם)”
- Hebrew: “באר יעקב”
- Indonesian: “Sumur Yakub”
- Italian: “Pozzo di Giacobbe”
- Japanese: “ヤコブの泉”
- Korean: “야곱의 우물”
- Polish: “Studnia Jakuba”
- Polish: “Studnia Jakubowa”
- Portuguese: “Poço de Jacó”
- Russian: “Колодец Иакова”
- Spanish: “Pozo de Jacob”
- Swedish: “Jakobs källa”
- Tagalog: “Balon ng Sicar”
- Tagalog: “Balon ng Sikar”
- Tagalog: “Balon ni Jacob”
- Tagalog: “Balon ni Sicar”
- Tagalog: “Balon ni Sikar”
- Tagalog: “Bir Ya’kub”
- Tagalog: “Bir Ya’qub”
- Tagalog: “Bir Yakub”
- Tagalog: “Bir Yaqub”
- Tagalog: “Bukal ni Jacob”
- Tagalog: “Fountain of Jacob”
- Tagalog: “Jacob’s fountain”
- Tagalog: “Jacob’s well”
- Tagalog: “Sychar Well”
- Tagalog: “Sychar’s well”
- Tagalog: “Well of Jacob”
- Tagalog: “Well of Sychar”
- Turkish: “Yakup Kuyusu”
- Ukrainian: “Бір-Якуб”
- Ukrainian: “Колодязь Якова”
- Ukrainian: “Криниця Якова”
- Urdu: “یعقوب کا کنواں”
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