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Ras al-Amud

Ras al-Amud is a Palestinian neighborhood in located southeast of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinian neighborhood of lies to the south, and al-Eizariya to the east, and the Jewish neighborhood of to the north.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: neighborhood in East Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Ras al ‘Amud” and “Rās al ‘Āmūd”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Aqsa Mosque and Mount of Olives.

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 .

Peak
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The Old City 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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maale HaZeitim and Silwan.

Neighborhood
Ma'ale HaZeitim is a Jewish Israeli settlement in , located on the , near the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. In 2010, its inhabitants numbered some 250 people belonging to 50 families.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Siloam is a predominantly Palestinian district in , on the southeastern outskirts of the current Old City of Jerusalem. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament; in the latter it is the location of Jesus' healing the man blind from birth.

Locality
Photo: Mewasul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a garden at the foot of the in , where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

Ras al-Amud

Latitude
31.7702° or 31° 46′ 13″ north
Longitude
35.24392° or 35° 14′ 38″ east
Elevation
595 metres (1,952 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6CV+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3791268444
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7890169
Wiki­data ID
Q2919246
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Ras al-Amud” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رأس العمود”
  • Arabic: “راس العامود”
  • Czech: “Ras al-Amud”
  • Czech: “Ras al-Amúd”
  • Czech: “Rás al-Ámúd”
  • Dutch: “Ras al-Amud”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “راس العامود”
  • French: “Ras al-Amoud”
  • French: “Ras al-Amud”
  • Hebrew: “ראס אל עמוד”
  • Hebrew: “ראס אל-עמוד”
  • Italian: “Ras al-Amud”
  • Romanian: “Zona Ras al-Amud”
  • Spanish: “Ras al-Amud”

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