Sur Baher
Sur Baher, also Tsur Baher, is a Palestinian neighborhood on the southeastern outskirts of East Jerusalem. It is located east of Ramat Rachel and northeast of Har Homa. In 2006, Sur Baher had a population of 15,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: Palestinian village located southeast of Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Şūr Bāhir”, “Sūr Bāhit”, and “Tsur Baher”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Embassy of the United States and Kathisma.
Embassy of the United States
Government office
Photo: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, CC BY 2.0.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Jerusalem is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the State of Israel. It is located in Talpiot, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem.
Kathisma
Archaeological site
The Church of the Seat of Mary, Church of the Kathisma or Old Kathisma being the name mostly used in literature, was a 5th-century Byzantine church in the Holy Land, located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, on what is today known as Hebron Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Umm Tuba and Ramat Rahel.
Umm Tuba
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Umm Tuba is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem part of Sur Baher; it is northeast of Har Homa and Bethlehem, and southeast of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
Ramat Rahel
Village
Ramat Rachel is a kibbutz located in central Israel. An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, near the neighborhoods Arnona and Talpiot, and overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
East Talpiot
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
East Talpiot or Armon HaNetziv is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, established by Israel in 1973 on land captured in the Six-Day War and occupied since then.
Sur Baher
- Categories: neighborhood of Jerusalem and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.73791° or 31° 44′ 17″ northLongitude
35.23143° or 35° 13′ 53″ eastElevation
751 metres (2,464 feet)Open location code
8G3QP6QJ+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 334491712OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sur Baher” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صور باهر”
- Arabic: “صورباهر”
- Arabic: “قرية صور باهر”
- Arabic: “قرية صورباهر”
- Czech: “Cur Baher”
- Czech: “Cur Bahir”
- Czech: “Sur Baher”
- Czech: “Sur Bahir”
- Czech: “Súr Báhir”
- French: “Tsour Baher”
- Hebrew: “צור באהר”
- Hebrew: “צור באחר”
- Macedonian: “Шур Бахер”
- Polish: “Sur Baher”
- Polish: “Sur Bahir”
- Spanish: “Sur Baher”
- Turkish: “Sur Baher”
- Urdu: “صور باہر”
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