Shaykh Jarrāḩ

Shaykh Jarrāḩ is a locality in , . Shaykh Jarrāḩ is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near the neighborhood .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tomb of Simeon the Just and Dome of the Rock.

Synagogue
Photo: סול במול, GFDL.
The or Simeon the Righteous is an ancient tomb in . According to scholarly consensus, based on an in situ inscription, it is the 2nd-century CE burial site of a Roman matron named Julia Sabina.

Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
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.

Public building
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a building located in that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1980s and 1990s. Built in 1897 by Ismail Musa Al-Husseini, it has been owned by the Al-Husseini family since.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sheikh Jarrah and Kiryat Menachem Begin.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.

Neighborhood
, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in located between in the north, adjacent to in the east and in the west.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in , located at the head of the , north of the .

Shaykh Jarrāḩ

Latitude
31.79287° or 31° 47′ 34″ north
Longitude
35.23166° or 35° 13′ 54″ east
Elevation
761 metres (2,497 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6VJ+4M
Geo­Names ID
7890301
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In Other Languages

“Shaykh Jarrāḩ” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيخ الجراح”

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