Bayit VeGan
Bayit VeGan is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem. It is located to the east of Mount Herzl, and borders the neighborhoods of Kiryat HaYovel and Givat Mordechai.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: Western Jerusalem neighborhood
- Also known as: “Bait VeGan”, “Bayit Vagan”, “Bayit VaGan”, “Bayit Vegan”, “Bayit Wegan”, “Beit VeGan”, “Bet Wegan”, and “BetVeGan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Library of Israel and Israel Museum.
National Library of Israel
Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Library of Israel, formerly Jewish National and University Library, is the library dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and of Jewish heritage.
Israel Museum
Museum
Photo: אסף.צ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Israel Museum is an art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and an encyclopedic museum.
Yad Va’Shem
Museum
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the survivors; honoring Jews who fought against…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ramat Denya and Givat Mordechai.
Ramat Denya
Suburb
Photo: Gilabrand, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ramat Denya is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem. It was established in 1970 between Kiryat Hayovel and Bayit Vegan, 780 meters above sea level. Denya was the name of the development company that built the first apartment buildings.
Givat Mordechai
Suburb
Givat Mordechai is a Jewish neighborhood in southwest-central Jerusalem, midway between the neighborhoods of Nayot and Malcha. The neighborhood was named after an American philanthropist, Maxwell Abbell of Chicago.
Kiryat HaYovel
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kiryat HaYovel is a neighborhood in southwestern Jerusalem on Mount Herzl. It was built in the early 1950s to house Jewish immigrants and refugees who fled the Arab world.
Bayit VeGan
- Categories: neighborhood of Jerusalem and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.76414° or 31° 45′ 51″ northLongitude
35.18669° or 35° 11′ 12″ eastElevation
824 metres (2,703 feet)Open location code
8G3QQ57P+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 278476471OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Bayit VeGan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بييت فيغان”
- Czech: “Bajit va-Gan”
- French: “Bayit VeGan”
- Hebrew: “Bet VeGan”
- Hebrew: “בית וגן”
- Hebrew: “שכונת בית וגן”
- Indonesian: “Bayit VeGan”
- Macedonian: “Баит Веган”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayit VeGan”
- Norwegian: “Bayit VeGan”
- Russian: “Байт ве-Ган”
- Turkish: “Bayit VeGan”
- Yiddish: “בית וגן”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Bayit VeGan”. Photo: Bienchido, CC BY-SA 3.0.