Ma’alot Dafna
Ma'alot Dafna is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. It borders the neighborhood of Shmuel HaNavi to the west, Ammunition Hill to the east, Ramat Eshkol to the north and Arzei HaBira to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighbourhood of Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Ma‘alot Dafna” and “Maalot Dafna”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Dome of the Rock.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of 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…
Damascus Gate
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beit Yisroel and HaBukharim.
Beit Yisroel
Suburb
Beit Yisrael is a predominantly Haredi neighborhood in central Jerusalem. It is located just north of Mea Shearim. The name Beit Yisrael is taken from the verse in Ezekiel 36:10, in which Ezekiel prophesies to the hills and mountains of Israel, "I shall make…
HaBukharim
Suburb
The Bukharan Quarter, also HaBukharim Quarter or Bukharim Quarter, is a neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, Israel. The neighborhood was established by Bukharan Jews of the Old Yishuv.
Sheikh Jarrah
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sheikh Jarrah is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.
Ma’alot Dafna
- Categories: neighborhood, Israeli settlement, and locality
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.79337° or 31° 47′ 36″ northLongitude
35.22468° or 35° 13′ 29″ eastElevation
802 metres (2,631 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6VF+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2081525616OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Ma’alot Dafna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معلوت دفنه”
- Czech: “Ma’alot Dafna”
- Czech: “Maalot Dafna”
- Dutch: “Ma’alot Dafna”
- French: “Ma’alot Dafna”
- Hebrew: “ארזי הבירה”
- Hebrew: “מעלות דפנה”
- Indonesian: “Ma’alot Dafna”
- Turkish: “Ma’alot Defne”
- Yiddish: “מעלות דפנה”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Batei Ungarin and Geula.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shim’on HaTsadik and Border Police.
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