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Cave of the Patriarchs

The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name Cave of Machpelah and to Muslims as the Ibrahami Mosque, or Sanctuary of Ibrahim, is a series of caves situated in the heart of the in the , 30 kilometres south of .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: series of caves located in the heart of the old city of Hebron
  • Also known as: “Al Haram al Ibrahimi ash Sharif”, “Al Ḩaram al Ibrāhīmī ash Sharīf”, “Cave of Machpelah”, “Cavern of the Patriarchs”, “Ibrahami Mosque”, “Sanctuary of Ibrahim”, and “Tomb of the Patriarchs”
  • Address: Hebron

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town and Beit HaShalom.

Protected area
Photo: Eman, Public domain.
The Old City of Hebron is the historic city centre of . The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally started elsewhere, at Tel Rumeida, which is approximately 200 meters west of today's Old City, and thought to have originally been a Canaanite city. is situated 190 metres southwest of Cave of the Patriarchs.

Building
Photo: עמירם פאל, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, or the Rajabi House, also known as Beit HaMeriva, is a four-story apartment building located in the H-2 Area of , in the . is situated 320 metres northeast of Cave of the Patriarchs.

Mosque
Photo: יורם שורק, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as the Shaykh Ali al-Baka Mosque, is a 13th-century in the northwestern section of the in the southern , . is situated 790 metres northwest of Cave of the Patriarchs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kiryat Arba and Hebron.

Village
or Qiryat Arba is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of , in the southern Israeli-occupied . Founded in 1968, in 2023 it had a population of 7,572.

Photo: Extua, CC BY 3.0.
is an ancient city in the southern . It is the traditional burial place of the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their wives.

Village
, also spelled Al 'Uddeisa, is a Palestinian village located four kilometers east of .The village is a locality of , in the Southern . is situated 3 km east of Cave of the Patriarchs.

Cave of the Patriarchs

Latitude
31.52478° or 31° 31′ 29″ north
Longitude
35.11079° or 35° 6′ 39″ east
Elevation
896 metres (2,940 feet)
Open location code
8G3QG4F6+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1302827171
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­religious
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
8073316
Wiki­data ID
Q204200
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Cave of the Patriarchs” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Grot van die Patriarge”
  • Arabic: “Cave of the Patriarchs”
  • Arabic: “الحرم الإبراهيمي الشريف”
  • Arabic: “الحرم الابراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “المسجد الإبراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “المسجد الابراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “حرم إبراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “حرم ابراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “مسجد إبراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “مسجد ابراهيمي”
  • Arabic: “مغارة المكفيلة”
  • Basque: “Abrahamen meskita”
  • Basque: “Abrahamen santutegia”
  • Basque: “Makpelako haitzuloa”
  • Basque: “Makpelako lezea”
  • Basque: “Patriarken haitzuloa”
  • Belarusian: “Пячора патрыярхаў”
  • Bengali: “ইব্রাহিমী মসজিদ”
  • Bulgarian: “Махпела”
  • Bulgarian: “Пещерата на Махпела”
  • Bulgarian: “Пещерата на патриарсите”
  • Catalan: “cova de Macpelà”
  • Catalan: “Cova de Macpelà”
  • Catalan: “Tomba dels Patriarques”
  • Central Kurdish: “مزگەوتی ئیبراھیمی”
  • Chechen: “ИбрахӀиман маьждиг”
  • Chinese: “始祖墓穴”
  • Chinese: “易卜拉清真寺”
  • Chinese: “聖祖墓穴”
  • Chinese: “麥比拉洞”
  • Chinese: “麦比拉洞”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně Machpela”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně patriarchů”
  • Czech: “Machpela”
  • Danish: “Makpelas hule”
  • Dutch: “de grot van de dubbele graven”
  • Dutch: “Grot der Patriarchen”
  • Dutch: “Grot van de Patriarchen”
  • Dutch: “Grot van Machpéla”
  • Dutch: “Ibrahimi moskee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المسجد الابراهيمى”
  • Esperanto: “Groto de Makpela”
  • Finnish: “Patriarkkojen hauta”
  • French: “Caveau des patriarches”
  • French: “Grotte de Mahpela”
  • French: “tombeau des Patriarches”
  • French: “Tombeau des Patriarches”
  • Galician: “Tumba dos Patriarcas”
  • Georgian: “პატრიარქების მღვიმე”
  • German: “Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi”
  • German: “Grab der Patriarchen”
  • German: “Höhle der Patriarchen”
  • German: “Höhle Machpela”
  • German: “Höhle von Machpela”
  • German: “Machpela”
  • Greek: “Ιερό του Αβραάμ”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαιο του Μαχπελά”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαιο των Πατριαρχών”
  • Greek: “Σπηλιά των Πατριαρχών”
  • Greek: “Τάφος των Πατριαρχών”
  • Greek: “Τύμβος των Πατριαρχών”
  • Hausa: “Kogon Shugabannin”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חרם אל-אבראהימי”
  • Hebrew: “המקום הקדוש של אברהם”
  • Hebrew: “מערת המכפלה”
  • Hindi: “कुलपति की गुफा”
  • Indonesian: “Gua Machpelah”
  • Indonesian: “Gua Makhpela”
  • Indonesian: “Machpelah”
  • Indonesian: “Makhpela”
  • Irish: “Mosc Ibrahimi”
  • Italian: “Grotta dei Patriarchi”
  • Italian: “grotta di Macpela”
  • Italian: “Machpelah”
  • Italian: “Makhpelah”
  • Italian: “Tomba dei Patriarchi”
  • Italian: “מערת המכפלה”
  • Japanese: “アル＝ハラール・アル＝イブラヒーミー”
  • Japanese: “イブラヒーミー・モスク”
  • Japanese: “イブラヒーム・モスク”
  • Japanese: “イブラヒム・モスク”
  • Japanese: “マクペラの洞穴”
  • Japanese: “族長たちの墓”
  • Japanese: “族長たちの洞窟”
  • Kazakh: “Äl-Xaram äl-Ïbrahïmï”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Харам әл-Ибраһими”
  • Kazakh: “ٴال-حارام ٴال-ىيبراحىيمىي”
  • Khmer: “គុហានៃបុព្វបុរស”
  • Korean: “막벨라굴”
  • Korean: “패트리아크 동굴”
  • Ladino: “Mearat Amahpela”
  • Latvian: “Patriarhu ala”
  • Macedonian: “Пештера на Патријарсите”
  • Malay: “Gua Para Patriak”
  • Malay: “Gua Para Patriark”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abrahams gravsted”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makpela-hulen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makpelas hule”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Patriarkgrotta”
  • Norwegian: “Makpelahulen”
  • Persian: “غار مخپلا”
  • Polish: “Jaskinia Machpela”
  • Polish: “Machpela”
  • Polish: “Makpela”
  • Portuguese: “Caverna de Macpela”
  • Portuguese: “Caverna dos Patriarcas”
  • Portuguese: “Macpela”
  • Portuguese: “Túmulo dos Patriarcas”
  • Romanian: “Mormintele Patriarhilor”
  • Romanian: “Peștera Patriarhilor”
  • Russian: “Двойная пещера”
  • Russian: “Меарат ха-Махпела”
  • Russian: “Мечеть Ибрахима”
  • Russian: “пещера Ибрахима”
  • Russian: “пещера Махпела”
  • Russian: “пещера Патриархов”
  • Russian: “Пещера Патриархов”
  • Russian: “пещера Праотцов”
  • Russian: “Харам-аль-Ибрахими”
  • Russian: “Харам-аль-Халиль”
  • Serbian: “Пећина патријараха”
  • Slovenian: “Mahpela”
  • Slovenian: “votlina Mahpela”
  • Slovenian: “votlina praočakov”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de los Patriarcas”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de Macpela”
  • Spanish: “Macpela”
  • Spanish: “Tumba de los Patriarcas”
  • Swedish: “Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi”
  • Swedish: “Al-Magr”
  • Swedish: “Ibrahimimoskén”
  • Swedish: “Machpelagrottan”
  • Swedish: “Makpela”
  • Swedish: “Makpelagrottan”
  • Tamil: “பிதாப்பிதாக்களின் குகை”
  • Tatar: “Патриархлар мәгәрәсе”
  • Turkish: “Atababalar Mağarası”
  • Ukrainian: “Печера патріархів”
  • Urdu: “مسجد ابراہیم”
  • Urdu: “مسجد ابراہیمی”
  • Welsh: “Ogof Macphela”
  • Welsh: “Ogof y Patriarchiaid”
  • Yiddish: “מערת המכפילה”
  • Yiddish: “מערת המכפלה”

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