Silwan
Silwan or Siloam is a predominantly Palestinian district in East Jerusalem, on the southeastern outskirts of the current Old City of Jerusalem. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament; in the latter it is the location of Jesus' healing the man blind from birth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 19,800 residents
- Description: neighborhood in East Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Silwān”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pool of Siloam and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Pool of Siloam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The term Pool of Siloam refers to several rock-cut pools located southeast of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The pools were fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by the Siloam tunnel.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maale HaZeitim and Ras al-Amud.
Maale HaZeitim
Neighborhood
Ma'ale HaZeitim is a Jewish Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, located on the Mount of Olives, near the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. In 2010, its inhabitants numbered some 250 people belonging to 50 families.
Ras al-Amud
Suburb
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ras al-Amud is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem located southeast of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan lies to the south, Abu Dis and al-Eizariya to the east, and the Jewish neighborhood of Ma'ale HaZeitim to the north.
Jewish Quarter
Neighborhood
Photo: Michael Kriegal, CC BY 2.0.
The Jewish Quarter is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east.
Silwan
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.7706° or 31° 46′ 14″ northLongitude
35.23696° or 35° 14′ 13″ eastPopulation
19,800Elevation
713 metres (2,339 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6CP+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 11607797137OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
281788Wikidata ID
Q2448062
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Silwan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سلوان”
- Central Kurdish: “سیلوان”
- Chinese: “西尔万”
- Chinese: “錫勒萬”
- Czech: “Kfar ha-Šiloach”
- Czech: “Kfar HaShiloah”
- Czech: “Silvan”
- Czech: “Silván”
- Czech: “Silwan”
- Dutch: “Silwan”
- Finnish: “Siiloa”
- Finnish: “Silwan”
- French: “Silwan”
- French: “Silwân”
- French: “Wadi Hilweh”
- German: “Silwan”
- Hebrew: “כפר השילוח”
- Hebrew: “סילואן”
- Hebrew: “סילוואן”
- Hebrew: “סלואן”
- Indonesian: “Silwan”
- Italian: “Siloam”
- Japanese: “シロアム”
- Korean: “실로암”
- Macedonian: “Силван”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silwan”
- Norwegian: “Silwan”
- Persian: “سلوان (اورشلیم)”
- Persian: “سلوان”
- Polish: “Silwan”
- Russian: “Силоам”
- Russian: “Силуан”
- Russian: “Сильван”
- Spanish: “Silwan”
- Swedish: “Silwan”
- Turkish: “Silwan”
- Urdu: “سلوان”
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