Western Wall Police Station

Western Wall Police Station is a police station in West Bank, Palestine which is located on Western Wall Plaza. Western Wall Police Station is situated nearby to the scenic viewpoint Western Wall Observation Point, as well as near the square Western Wall Plaza.

Opening hours: 24/7
Type: Police station
Address: Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Western Wall and Western Wall Plaza.

Western Wall

Synagogue

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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.

Western Wall Plaza

Square

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The Western Wall Plaza is a large public square situated adjacent to the Western Wall in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. It was formed in 1967 as a result of the razing of the Mughrabi Quarter neighborhood at the very end of the Six-Day War.

Dome of the Rock

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 is situated 210 metres east of Western Wall Police Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewish Quarter and Old City.

Jewish Quarter

Neighborhood

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The Jewish Quarter is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east.

Old City

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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.