Joseph’s Tomb
Joseph's Tomb is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 m northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.
- Type: Tomb
- Description: funerary monument in Shechem
- Also known as: “An Nabi Yusuf”, “An Nabī Yūsuf”, “Joseph Tomb”, “Kever Yosef”, “Nabi Yusuf”, and “Qabr Yūsuf”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bi’er Yacoub and Tell Balata.
Bi’er Yacoub
Church
Photo: Jkgarrett17, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jacob's Well, also known as Jacob's Fountain or the Well of Sychar, is a Christian holy site located in Balata village, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank. Bi’er Yacoub is situated 510 metres south of Joseph’s Tomb.
Tell Balata
Archaeological site
Photo: TrickyH, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tell Balata is an archaeological site in the West Bank near Nablus, Palestine, that includes the remains of an ancient Canaanite and Israelite city, identified since 1913 with the Biblical city of Shechem. Tell Balata is situated 480 metres west of Joseph’s Tomb.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balata Camp and Askar RC (al-Qadeem).
Balata Camp
Town
Photo: Hoshvilim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balata Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank in 1950, adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts of the city of Nablus. Balata Camp had a population of 14,635 in 2017.
Askar RC (al-Qadeem)
Village
Photo: Qusay.khateeb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Askar is a Palestinian refugee camp. It is located on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus and was established in 1950 on 119 dunums of land. Residents of the camp refer to this as “New Askar”.
Kiryat Luza
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kiryat Luza is a village situated on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank. It is within Area B of the West Bank, and as a result is under the joint control of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, and is the only remaining site populated wholly by Samaritans.
Joseph’s Tomb
- Categories: funerary structure and burial
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Joseph’s Tomb” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قبر يوسف”
- Armenian: “Հովսեփի դամբարան”
- Azerbaijani: “Yusifin qəbri”
- Catalan: “Tomba de Josep”
- Chechen: “Юсуфан каш”
- Danish: “Josefs grav”
- Dutch: “Graf van Jozef”
- Dutch: “Joseph’s Tomb”
- Esperanto: “Tombo de Jozefo”
- Finnish: “Joosefin hauta”
- French: “Tombe de Joseph”
- French: “Tombeau de Joseph”
- German: “Josefs Grab”
- German: “Josefsgrab”
- Hebrew: “קבר יוסף הצדיק”
- Hebrew: “קבר יוסף”
- Indonesian: “Makam Yusuf”
- Italian: “Tomba di Giuseppe”
- Malay: “Makam Yusuf”
- Maltese: “Qabar ta‘ Ġużeppi”
- Polish: “Grób Józefa Egipskiego”
- Portuguese: “Túmulo de José”
- Romanian: “Mormântul lui Iosif”
- Russian: “Гробница Иосифа”
- Spanish: “Tumba de José”
- Swedish: “Josefs grav”
- Tamil: “யோசேப்பின் கல்லறை”
- Turkish: “Yusuf’un Kabri”
- Ukrainian: “Гробниця Йосипа”
- Urdu: “مقبرہ یوسف”
- Yiddish: “קבר יוסף”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Joseph’s Tomb”. Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.