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Wadi al-Joz

Wadi al-Joz, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in , located at the head of the , north of the .
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  • Type: Suburb with 13,000 residents
  • Description: Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Vadi al-Joz”, “Wadi al Jawz”, and “Wādī al Jawz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Mount Scopus.

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.

Peak
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Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claim it is their capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.

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 .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bab az-Zahra and Sheikh Jarrah.

Suburb
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is an Arab neighborhood in , north of the . It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, Wadi al-Joz to the east, and on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and to the west.

Suburb
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is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in , two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to . It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.

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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

Wadi al-Joz

Latitude
31.78999° or 31° 47′ 24″ north
Longitude
35.23669° or 35° 14′ 12″ east
Population
13,000
Elevation
743 metres (2,438 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6QP+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2031059159
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7890300
Wiki­data ID
Q2918594
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Wadi al-Joz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وادي الجوز‎”
  • Arabic: “وادي الجوز”
  • Czech: “Vádí al-Džoz”
  • Czech: “Vádí al-Joz”
  • Czech: “Wádí al-Džúz”
  • Czech: “Wadi al-Joz”
  • Czech: “Wadi el-Joz”
  • French: “Wadi al-Joz”
  • German: “Wadi el-Dschos”
  • German: “Wadi el-Joz”
  • Hebrew: “ואדי אל-ג’וז”
  • Hebrew: “ואדי ג’וז”
  • Macedonian: “Вади ел-Џоз”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wadi al-Joz”
  • Norwegian: “Wadi al-Joz”
  • Polish: “Wadi al-Dżauz”
  • Polish: “Wadi al-Joz”
  • Russian: “Вади-эль-Яуз”
  • Spanish: “Wadi al-Joz”
  • Turkish: “Vadi el-Joz”

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