At-Tur
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem
- Also known as: “at-Tur”, “At-Tur, East Jerusalem”, “Et Tūr”, and “Ṭur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount of Olives and Dome of the Rock.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gethsemane and Maale HaZeitim.
Gethsemane
Locality
Photo: Mewasul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
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.
Al-Eizariya
Town
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bethany, locally called in Arabic al-Eizariya or el-Aizariya, is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of Palestine, bordering East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
At-Tur
- Categories: neighborhood of Jerusalem and locality
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.78128° or 31° 46′ 53″ northLongitude
35.2493° or 35° 14′ 58″ eastElevation
750 metres (2,461 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ6JX+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2031059192OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“At-Tur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Aţ Ţūr”
- Arabic: “الطور”
- Arabic: “الطور”
- Bengali: “আত-তুর”
- Bengali: “আত-তূর”
- Czech: “at-Tur”
- Czech: “At-Tur”
- Czech: “At-Túr”
- French: “At-Tur”
- German: “At-Tur”
- Hebrew: “א-טור”
- Macedonian: “Ат Тур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “At-Tur”
- Norwegian: “At-Tur”
- Polish: “At Tur”
- Polish: “At-Tur”
- Spanish: “At-Tur”
- Turkish: “At-Tur”
- Yiddish: “א-טור”
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Localities in the Area
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