Bethphage monastery
Bethphage or Bethsphage, is a Christian religious site on the Mount of Olives east of historical Jerusalem, now in the At-Tur neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: ancient biblical town
- Also known as: “Bethphage”
- Address: القدس
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount of Olives and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Mount of Olives
Peak
Photo: Agmonsnir, 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.
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. Al-Aqsa Mosque is situated 1½ km west of Bethphage monastery.
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. Dome of the Rock is situated 1½ km west of Bethphage monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include At-Tur and Al-Eizariya.
At-Tur
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At-Tur is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
Al-Eizariya
Town
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bethany, locally called in Arabic al-Eizariya or el-Aizariya, is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of Palestine, bordering East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
Ras al-Amud
Suburb
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ras al-Amud is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem located southeast of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan lies to the south, Abu Dis and al-Eizariya to the east, and the Jewish neighborhood of Ma'ale HaZeitim to the north.
Bethphage monastery
- Categories: human settlement, place of worship, and religion
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.7774° or 31° 46′ 39″ northLongitude
35.25113° or 35° 15′ 4″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ7G2+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1606122169OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q2193088
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Bethphage monastery” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير فاجا”
- Bulgarian: “Витфагия”
- Catalan: “Betfagé”
- Dutch: “Bethfagé”
- Finnish: “Beetfage”
- French: “Bethphagé”
- German: “Betfage”
- Hebrew: “בית פגי”
- Indonesian: “Bethphage”
- Irish: “Bethphage”
- Italian: “Santuario di Betfage”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Betfage”
- Norwegian: “Betfage”
- Ossetian: “Виффӕгъиӕ”
- Persian: “بیتفاجی”
- Polish: “Betfage”
- Portuguese: “Betfagé”
- Russian: “Виффагия”
- Spanish: “Betfage”
- Spanish: “Betfagé”
- Swedish: “Betfage”
- Tamil: “பெத்பகு”
- Ukrainian: “Віфагія”
- Urdu: “بیت فگے”
- Wolof: “Betfase”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Monastery and Beit Phage Garden.
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