Old mosque silwan

The Silwan necropolis is the remains of a rock-cut cemetery assumed to have been used by the highest-ranking officials residing in . Its tombs were cut between the 9th and 7th centuries BC.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: ancient Israelite cemetery in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Silwan necropolis”
  • Address: Jerusalem

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pool of Siloam and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

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The term refers to several rock-cut pools located southeast of the walls of the . The pools were fed by the waters of the , carried there by the Siloam tunnel.

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or in the compound in the Old City of . is situated 610 metres north of Old mosque silwan.

Place of worship
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . 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. is situated 1 km north of Old mosque silwan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silwan and Mount Zion.

Suburb
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or Siloam is a predominantly Palestinian district in , on the southeastern outskirts of the current Old City of Jerusalem. It was the source of water for the within larger boundaries of the ancient walled city of Jerusalem, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Suburb
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Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four traditional quarters of the . The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the and the in the east.

Old mosque silwan

Latitude
31.77074° or 31° 46′ 15″ north
Longitude
35.23433° or 35° 14′ 4″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
node 1606190086
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Romanian—“Old mosque silwan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لجامع القديم سلوان”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة سلوان”
  • Dutch: “Necropolis van Silwan”
  • Esperanto: “Silwan nekropolo”
  • French: “nécropole de la vallée du Cédron”
  • French: “Nécropole de la vallée du Cédron”
  • French: “nécropole de Silwan”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד סילוואן הישן”
  • Hebrew: “מערות הקבורה בנחל קדרון”
  • Hebrew: “מערות קבורה בנחל קדרון”
  • Indonesian: “Nekropolis Silwan”
  • Macedonian: “Кедрон долина некропола”
  • Romanian: “Vechea moschee silwan”

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