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 the Arab world and Islamic world as the Buraq Wall.
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  • Wall
  • …lies at an elevation of 738 metres (2,421 feet)
  • Description: holy site of Judaism in Jerusalem
  • Also known as
    “al-Buraq”
    “Al-Buraq Wall”
    “Buraq Wall”
    “Burāq, Ḥāʼiṭ al-”
    “Ḥāʼiṭ al-Burāq”
    “Kotel”
    “Wailing Wall”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Western Wall Plaza.
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque… is situated 150 metres southeast of Western Wall.
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The is a large public square…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewish Quarter and Old City.
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The is one of the four traditional quarters of the .
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The of Jerusalem is that part of …
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The is one of the four quarters…

Western Wall

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Latitude
31.77667° or 31° 46′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.23417° or 35° 14′ 3″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6GM+MM
Geo­Names ID
6957230
Wiki­data ID
Q134821

Satellite Map

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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”
  • Chuvash: “Хӳхлев Хӳми”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Jèrriais: “Murale es Plleurs”
  • Jèrriais: “Murâle ès Plleurs”
  • Jèrriais: “Muthale es Plieurs”
  • Jèrriais: “Muthâle ès Plieurs”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Swiss German: “Klagemauer”
  • Tagalog: “Kanluraning Pader”
  • Tamil: “மேற்குச் சுவர்”
  • Thai: “กำแพงประจิม”
  • 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”
  • “Мур плачу”

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