Mount Scopus
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 826 metres
- Description: mountain in Jerusalem, Israel
- Also known as: “Har Hatsofim”, “Har HaẔofim”, and “Ra’s al Mashārif”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Mount of Olives.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Building
Photo: BezalelArchive, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest institution of higher education and is considered the most prestigious art school in the country.
Mount of Olives
Peak
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old City of Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.
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 Issawiya and Wadi al-Joz.
Issawiya
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Issawiya is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It is located on the eastern slopes of the Mount Scopus ridge. To the east and north, it is bordered by Road 1, which connects Jerusalem with the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim; immediately adjoining…
Wadi al-Joz
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi al-Joz, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, located at the head of the Kidron Valley, north of the Old City of Jerusalem.
At-Tur
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At-Tur is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
Mount Scopus
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.79226° or 31° 47′ 32″ northLongitude
35.24617° or 35° 14′ 46″ eastElevation
826 metres (2,710 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6RW+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 10211751483OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Scopus from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Mount Scopus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل المشارف”
- Armenian: “Սկոպուս լեռ”
- Basque: “Scopus mendia”
- Bulgarian: “Скопий”
- Catalan: “Muntanya Scopus”
- Cebuano: “Mount Scopus”
- Chinese: “斯科普斯山”
- Czech: “Skopus”
- Danish: “Mt. Scopus”
- Dutch: “Mount Scopus”
- Dutch: “Scopusberg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل المشارف”
- Esperanto: “Monto Skopus”
- Finnish: “Scopusvuori”
- French: “mont Scopus”
- French: “Mont Scopus”
- German: “Berg Scopus”
- German: “Skopus”
- German: “Skopusberg”
- Greek: “Όρος Σκοπός”
- Hebrew: “הר הצופים”
- Hungarian: “Scopus-hegy”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Scopus”
- Irish: “Sliabh Scopus”
- Italian: “Monte Scopus”
- Japanese: “スコーパス山”
- Japanese: “スコープス山”
- Korean: “스코푸스산”
- Ladin: “Mount Scopus”
- Ladino: “Monte Scopus”
- Macedonian: “Скопуска Гора”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Scopusfjellet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skopusfjellet”
- Norwegian: “Scopusfjellet”
- Persian: “تپه اسکوپوس”
- Persian: “تپهٔ اسکوپوس”
- Persian: “کوه اسکوپوس”
- Persian: “کوهٔ اسکوپوس”
- Persian: “کوه دیدهوران”
- Persian: “هار هتسوفیم”
- Polish: “Góra Skopus”
- Portuguese: “Monte Scopus”
- Romanian: “Muntele Scopus”
- Russian: “Гора Скопус”
- Russian: “Скопус”
- Serbian: “Skopus”
- Serbian: “Скопска гора”
- Serbian: “Скопус”
- Serbian: “הַר הַצּוֹפִים”
- Slovak: “Har ha-Cofim”
- Slovak: “Mount Scopus”
- Slovak: “Mt. Scopus”
- Slovak: “Skopus”
- Spanish: “Monte Scopus”
- Tagalog: “Bundok Scopus”
- Tamil: “ஸ்கோபஸ் மலை”
- Turkish: “Scopus Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Гора Скопус”
- Ukrainian: “Скопус”
- Urdu: “جبل المشارف”
- Venetian: “Monte Scopus”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Scopus”
- Western Panjabi: “جبل المشارف”
- Yiddish: “הר הצופים”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mount Scopus and Kiryat Menachem Begin.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Har Hatzofim Tower and Hebrew University - Mount Scopus.
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