Sednaya Prison
Sednaya Prison, nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse", was a military prison and death camp in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. Operated by Ba'athist Syria, prisoners included civilian detainees, anti-government rebels, and political prisoners.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Prison
- Description: Syrian military jail, near Damascus
- Also known as: “Saydnaya Prison” and “Sednaya military prison”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Aqua Fresca.
Aqua Fresca
Water park
Photo: Quick-ease2020, CC BY 4.0.
Aqua Fresca is a water park, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Sednaya Prison.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saidnaya and Al-Tall.
Saidnaya
Town
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saidnaya, also transliterated as Saydnaya, Seidnaya or Sednaya, is a city located in the mountains, 1,500 m above sea level, 27 km north of the city of Damascus in Syria. Saidnaya is situated 5 km northeast of Sednaya Prison.
Al-Tall
Town
Al-Tall is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate and capital of the al-Tall District. Situated in the middle of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, having an elevation of roughly 1,000 meters above sea level. Al-Tall is situated 6 km south of Sednaya Prison.
Dahiyat Harasta
Town
Dahiyat Harasta is a suburb in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northeast of Damascus, near Harasta in Eastern Ghouta. Formerly, it was known as Dahiyat al-Assad. Dahiyat Harasta is situated 10 km south of Sednaya Prison.
Sednaya Prison
- Category: government building
- Location: Damascus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.66474° or 33° 39′ 53″ northLongitude
36.32978° or 36° 19′ 47″ eastElevation
1,321 metres (4,334 feet)Open location code
8G5RM87H+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 144825512OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sednaya Prison” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سجن صيدنايا”
- Armenian: “Սեյդնայայի բանտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sednaya həbsxanası”
- Belarusian: “Сэдная”
- Bengali: “সেদনায়া কারাগার”
- Breton: “Toull-bac’h Saidnaya”
- Catalan: “presó de Sednaya”
- Catalan: “Presó de Sednaya”
- Central Kurdish: “زیندانی سەیدنایە”
- Chinese: “赛德纳亚监狱”
- Czech: “Věznice Sajdnájá”
- Danish: “Saidnayafængslet”
- Dutch: “Sednayagevangenis”
- Esperanto: “malliberejo Sednaja”
- Finnish: “Saidnayan vankila”
- French: “prison de Saidnaya”
- French: “Prison de Saidnaya”
- French: “prison militaire de Saidnaya”
- German: “Gefängnis Saidnaya”
- German: “Militärgefängnis Saidnaya”
- Hebrew: “כלא סיידנאיא”
- Hebrew: “כלא סיידנאייא”
- Ido: “Karcero di Sednaya”
- Indonesian: “Penjara Sednaya”
- Japanese: “サイドナヤ刑務所”
- Korean: “세드나야 교도소”
- Kurdish: “Girtîgeha Sêdnayayê”
- Kurdish: “Zîndana Seydnayayê”
- Lithuanian: “Saidnajos kalėjimas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saidnayafengselet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saidnayafengselet”
- Norwegian: “Saidnayafengselet”
- Persian: “زندان صیدنایا”
- Polish: “Więzienie w Sajdnaja”
- Portuguese: “Prisão de Sednaya”
- Pushto: “صیدنایا زندان”
- Russian: “тюрьма Сайданайи”
- Russian: “Тюрьма Седная”
- Russian: “Человеческая бойня”
- Spanish: “Prisión de Saydnaya”
- Spanish: “Prisión de Sednaya”
- Spanish: “Prisión militar de Saydnaya”
- Swedish: “Saidnayafängelset”
- Swedish: “Saydnayafängelset”
- Swiss German: “Gefängnis Saidnaya”
- Swiss German: “Militärgefängnis Saidnaya”
- Turkish: “Sednaya askerî hapishanesi”
- Turkish: “Sednaya Hapishanesi”
- Ukrainian: “В’язниця Седная”
- Ukrainian: “Тюрма Седная”
- Urdu: “صیدنایا جیل”
- Urdu: “صیدنایا قید خانہ”
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