Ghuraifa
Ghuraifa is a village in Bahrain that has now been subsumed into the Juffair suburb of Manama, Bahrain. Its Bahraini inhabitants are Baharna Shia. The village and its descendants have produced a number of prominent Twelver clerics, including: The village lies west of the United States Naval Support Activity Bahrain base, and south of the Bahrain School.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Capital Governorate, Bahrain
- Also known as: “Al Ghurayfah”, “Gharaifa”, “Ghuraifah”, and “Ghurayfah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bahrain School and Al Fateh Grand Mosque.
Bahrain School
School
Bahrain School is a Department of Defense Education Activity school located in Juffair, Manama, Bahrain.
Al Fateh Grand Mosque
Mosque
Photo: أبو الشاي حليب, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Al-Fateh Mosque, also known as the Al-Fateh Islamic Center and as the Al Fateh Grand Mosque, is a large mosque, located in Manama, Bahrain. Encompassing 6,500 square metres, with the capacity to accommodate over 7,000 worshippers at a time, it was one of the largest mosques in the world.
Naval Support Activity Bahrain
Naval base
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Naval Support Activity Bahrain is a United States Navy base situated in the Kingdom of Bahrain and is home to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and United States Fifth Fleet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jufair and Umm Al Hassam.
Jufair
Suburb
Photo: Ahedmustafa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with its 700,000 people representing nearly half the country's population. Overshadowed by its brash Gulf neighbors Dubai and Qatar, it's often overlooked as a travel destination, but this clean, modern and safe city offers a quieter, gentler introduction to the Gulf way of life.
Umm Al Hassam
Suburb
Umm Al Hassam is a middle-class neighbourhood on the southern coast of Manama, the capital of Bahrain. The neighborhood is home to the majority of Bahrain's local Jewish community.
Al Mahooz
Village
Mahooz is a neighborhood of Manama, Bahrain. The grave and shrine of the 13th century Shia theologian Maitham Al Bahrani is located in Mahooz.
Ghuraifa
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Manama, Bahrain, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.20825° or 26° 12′ 30″ northLongitude
50.6039° or 50° 36′ 14″ eastElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
7HRG6J53+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1300042616OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Ghuraifa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الغريفة (البحرين)”
- Arabic: “الغريفة”
- Arabic: “اَلْغُرَيْفَة”
- Arabic: “الغريفه”
- Dutch: “Ghuraifa”
- Persian: “الغریفه”
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Notable Places Nearby
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