Kidron Valley
The Kidron Valley is a valley originating slightly northeast of the Old City of Jerusalem, which then separates the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives, and ending at the Dead Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Valley with an elevation of 693 metres
- Description: valley on the eastern side of The Old City of Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Kedron”, “Qidron Valley”, “Wadi Al Nar”, and “Wadi al-Nar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. 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.
Western Wall
Synagogue
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Western Wall is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount 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 Arab world and Islamic world as the Buraq Wall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gethsemane and Maale HaZeitim.
Gethsemane
Locality
Photo: Mewasul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
Maale HaZeitim
Neighborhood
Ma'ale HaZeitim is a Jewish Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, located on the Mount of Olives, near the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. In 2010, its inhabitants numbered some 250 people belonging to 50 families.
Old City
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old City of Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.
Kidron Valley
- Category: landform
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kidron Valley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قدرون”
- Arabic: “وادي النار”
- Basque: “Zedrongo harana”
- Belarusian: “Кедронская даліна”
- Bulgarian: “Кедрон”
- Catalan: “Vall del Cedró”
- Cebuano: “Kidron Valley”
- Chinese: “汲沦谷”
- Chinese: “汲淪谷”
- Croatian: “Cedronska dolina”
- Czech: “Kidronské údolí”
- Czech: “Kidrónské údolí”
- Czech: “Nachal Kidron”
- Czech: “Nahal Kidron”
- Dutch: “Kidron”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وادي النار”
- Finnish: “Kidron”
- Finnish: “Kidronin laakso”
- French: “Cedron”
- French: “Cédron”
- French: “Vallée de Kidron”
- French: “Vallée du Cédron”
- Galician: “Val do Kidron”
- German: “Josafat Tal”
- German: “Kidrontal”
- Hebrew: “ואדי א-נאר”
- Hebrew: “נחל קדרון”
- Hebrew: “נחל קידרון”
- Hungarian: “Kidron-völgy”
- Indonesian: “Kidron”
- Italian: “Valle del Cedron”
- Japanese: “ケデロンの谷”
- Korean: “키드론 계곡”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kedron”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kedronbekken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kedrondalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kidron”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kidronbekken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kidrondalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kedrondalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kidrondalen”
- Norwegian: “Kedrondalen”
- Polish: “Dolina Cedronu”
- Polish: “Wadi an-Nar”
- Polish: “Wadi Dżahannam”
- Polish: “Wadi Sitti Marjam”
- Portuguese: “Ribeiro de cedrom”
- Portuguese: “Vale do cedrom”
- Portuguese: “Vale do cedron”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Cédron”
- Portuguese: “Vale Kidron”
- Romanian: “Râul Chedron”
- Romanian: “Valea Kidron”
- Russian: “Кедрон”
- Russian: “Кедронская долина”
- Russian: “Кидрон”
- Russian: “Кидронская долина”
- Russian: “Поток Кедрский”
- Serbian: “Kedronska dolina”
- Serbian: “Кедронска долина”
- Spanish: “Valle de Cedron”
- Spanish: “Valle de Cedrón”
- Spanish: “Valle de Kidron”
- Spanish: “Valle de Kidrón”
- Swedish: “Kidron”
- Swedish: “Kidrondalen”
- Ukrainian: “Кедронська долина”
- Urdu: “وادی قدرون”
- Western Panjabi: “کدرون”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Silwan and East Jerusalem.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Golden Gate and Church of Mary Magdalene.
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