Western Wall

The Western Wall is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Arab world and Islamic world as the Buraq Wall.
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  • Type: Wall
  • Description: holy site of Judaism in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “al-Buraq”, “Al-Buraq Wall”, “Buraq Wall”, “Burāq, Ḥāʼiṭ al-”, “Ḥāʼiṭ al-Burāq”, “Kotel”, and “Wailing Wall”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock.

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or in the compound in the Old City of . is situated 150 metres southeast of Western Wall.

Place of worship
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . 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. is situated 180 metres northeast of Western Wall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewish Quarter and Old City.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four traditional quarters of the . The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the in the east.

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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of , the other three being the , the and the .

Western Wall

Latitude
31.77667° or 31° 46′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.23417° or 35° 14′ 3″ east
Elevation
738 metres (2,421 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6GM+MM
Geo­Names ID
6957230
Wiki­data ID
Q134821
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Western Wall” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Buraq-muur”
  • Afrikaans: “Klaagmuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Kotel”
  • Afrikaans: “Westelike Muur”
  • Arabic: “الحائط الغربي”
  • Arabic: “حائط البراق”
  • Arabic: “حائط البراق‎”
  • Arabic: “حائط المبكى”
  • Armenian: “Լացի պատ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağlama divarı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərb divarı”
  • Basque: “Aieneen Harresia”
  • Basque: “Erosten harresia”
  • Basque: “Erosten Harresia”
  • Belarusian: “Сцяна плачу”
  • Belarusian: “Сьцяна плачу”
  • Bengali: “পশ্চিম প্রাচীর”
  • Breton: “Kotel”
  • Bulgarian: “Стена на плача”
  • Bulgarian: “Стената на плача”
  • Catalan: “Mur de les Lamentacions”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیواری ڕۆژاوا”
  • Chechen: “Белхаман Пен”
  • Chinese: “哭牆”
  • Chinese: “西墙”
  • Chinese: “西牆”
  • Croatian: “Zapadni zid”
  • Croatian: “Zid plača”
  • Czech: “Západní zeď”
  • Czech: “Zeď nářku”
  • Czech: “Zeď nářků”
  • Danish: “Grædemuren”
  • Danish: “Klagemuren”
  • Danish: “Vestmuren”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dêsê Bermayışi”
  • Dutch: “Hakotel hama’aravi”
  • Dutch: “Klaagmuur”
  • Dutch: “Westelijke muur”
  • Dutch: “Westmuur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حائط البراق”
  • Esperanto: “Muro de lamentado”
  • Esperanto: “Muro de lamentadoj”
  • Esperanto: “Muro de Lamentoj”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Muro”
  • Esperanto: “Plendomuro”
  • Esperanto: “Plora Muro”
  • Estonian: “Nutumüür”
  • Faroese: “Grátimúrurin”
  • Finnish: “Itkumuuri”
  • Finnish: “Länsimuuri”
  • French: “HaKotel”
  • French: “mur des Lamentations”
  • French: “Mur des Lamentations”
  • French: “Mur occidental”
  • Galician: “Muro das Lamentacións”
  • Galician: “Muro dos Lamentos”
  • German: “ha-Kotel ha-Maʿaravī”
  • German: “Klagemauer”
  • German: “Kotel Maaravi”
  • German: “Kotel Maarawi”
  • German: “Kotel”
  • German: “Westmauer”
  • Greek: “Δυτικό Τείχος”
  • Greek: “Τείχος των Δακρύων”
  • Greek: “Τείχος των Οδυρμών”
  • Hebrew: “הכותל המערבי”
  • Hebrew: “הכותל”
  • Hebrew: “כותל המערבי”
  • Hebrew: “כותל מערב”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी दीवार”
  • Hindi: “वेस्टर्न वाल”
  • Hindi: “वैलिंग वाल कोटेल”
  • Hungarian: “Siratófal”
  • Icelandic: “Grátmúrinn”
  • Inari Sami: “Čiärrummuvrâ”
  • Indonesian: “Dinding Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Kotel”
  • Indonesian: “Tembok Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Tembok Ratapan”
  • Italian: “Muro del Pianto o della preghiera”
  • Italian: “Muro del Pianto”
  • Italian: “Muro Occidentale”
  • Japanese: “嘆きの壁”
  • Japanese: “西の壁”
  • Javanese: “Tembok Kulon”
  • Javanese: “Tembok Ratapan”
  • Javanese: “Témbok Sesambat”
  • Javanese: “Tembok Wétan”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಶ್ಚಾತ್ಯ ಗೋಡೆ”
  • Korean: “통곡의 벽”
  • Ladino: “Kotel Amaaravi”
  • Ladino: “Kotel Amaaraví”
  • Ladino: “Kotel”
  • Ladino: “Muro de los Lamentos”
  • Latvian: “Raudu mūris”
  • Ligurian: “Miagia do Cento”
  • Limburgan: “Klaagmoer”
  • Lithuanian: “Raudų siena”
  • Macedonian: “Ѕид на плачот”
  • Malay: “Tembok Barat”
  • Malay: “Tembok Meratap”
  • Malay: “Tembok Ratapan”
  • Malayalam: “Western Wall”
  • Malayalam: “കരയുന്ന മതിൽ”
  • Malayalam: “വിലാപമതിൽ”
  • Manx: “Boalley ny Keaynaghyn”
  • Manx: “Boalley yn Accan”
  • Manx: “y Boalley Heear”
  • Mingrelian: “ჸოთუაშ კიდა”
  • Narom: “Murale es Plleurs”
  • Narom: “Murâle ès Plleurs”
  • Narom: “Muthale es Plieurs”
  • Narom: “Muthâle ès Plieurs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Klagemuren”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestmuren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Klagemuren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestmuren”
  • Norwegian: “Klagemuren”
  • Norwegian: “Vestmuren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mur de las Lamentacions”
  • Persian: “دیوار براق”
  • Persian: “دیوار ندبه”
  • Persian: “کتل همعراوی”
  • Persian: “کتل”
  • Polish: “Ściana Płaczu”
  • Portuguese: “Muro das Lamentações”
  • Portuguese: “Muro de Al-Buraq”
  • Portuguese: “Muro de Buraq”
  • Portuguese: “Muro Ocidental”
  • Romanian: “Kotel”
  • Romanian: “Zidul de Vest”
  • Romanian: “Zidul Plângerii”
  • Russian: “Западная Стена”
  • Russian: “Котель”
  • Russian: “Стена плача”
  • Russian: “Стена Плача”
  • Samogitian: “Raudū sėina”
  • Sanskrit: “पश्चिम भित्तिः”
  • Serbian: “Zid plača”
  • Serbian: “Западни зид”
  • Serbian: “Зид плача”
  • Skolt Sami: “Reäkkamseiʹnn”
  • Slovak: “Múr nárekov”
  • Slovenian: “Zid objokovanja”
  • Slovenian: “Zid žalovanja”
  • Spanish: “Muro de las Lamentaciones”
  • Spanish: “Muro de los lamentos”
  • Spanish: “Muro Occidental”
  • Swahili: “Ukuta wa Maombolezo”
  • Swedish: “Klagomur”
  • Swedish: “Västra muren”
  • Swiss German: “Chlagemuur”
  • Tagalog: “Kanluraning Pader”
  • Tamil: “மேற்குச் சுவர்”
  • Thai: “กำแพงประจิม”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Klagemauer”
  • Turkish: “Ağlama Duvarı”
  • Turkish: “Batı Duvarı”
  • Ukrainian: “За́хідна Стіна́”
  • Ukrainian: “Стіна плачу”
  • Urdu: “دیوارِ براق”
  • Urdu: “دیوار گریہ”
  • Urdu: “مغربی دیوار”
  • Uzbek: “Yigʻi devori ibodatxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bức tường phía Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Bức tường Than Khóc”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Katundan nga Bungbong”
  • Western Armenian: “Լացի Պատ”
  • Western Frisian: “Kleimuorre”
  • Western Frisian: “Westmuorre”
  • Western Panjabi: “چڑھدا کندھ”
  • Western Panjabi: “دیوار گریہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویوار گریہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویوارِ گریہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “西墙”
  • Yiddish: “כותל המערבי”
  • Yiddish: “כותל מערבי”
  • Yiddish: “כותל”
  • Yue Chinese: “哭牆”
  • “Raudū sėina”

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