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Gichon Spring

Gihon Spring or Fountain of the Virgin, also known as Saint Mary's Pool, is a spring in the . It was the main source of water for the in Jebus and the later City of David, the original site of .
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Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.
  • Type: Spring
  • Description: main source of water for the Pool of Siloam in the City of David
  • Also known as: “Fountain of the Virgin” and “Gihon Spring”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 350 metres north of Gichon Spring.

Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
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… is situated 550 metres north of Gichon Spring.

Synagogue
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the 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. is situated 460 metres northwest of Gichon Spring.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silwan and Maale HaZeitim.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Siloam is a predominantly Palestinian district in , on the southeastern outskirts of the current Old City of Jerusalem. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament; in the latter it is the location of Jesus' healing the man blind from birth.

Neighborhood
Ma'ale HaZeitim is a Jewish Israeli settlement in , located on the , near the Palestinian neighborhood of . In 2010, its inhabitants numbered some 250 people belonging to 50 families.

Neighborhood
Photo: Michael Kriegal, CC BY 2.0.
The 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 on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the and the in the east.

Gichon Spring

Latitude
31.77324° or 31° 46′ 24″ north
Longitude
35.23683° or 35° 14′ 13″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6FP+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1608094098
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­spring
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q204601
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Gichon Spring” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “عين سلوان”
  • Arabic: “نبع أم الدرج”
  • Arabic: “نبع جيحون”
  • Asturian: “Fonte del Gihón”
  • Bulgarian: “Гион”
  • Catalan: “font de Gió”
  • Catalan: “Font de Gió”
  • Chinese: “基训泉”
  • Chinese: “基順泉”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عين سلوان”
  • Esperanto: “Gihon”
  • Finnish: “Giihonin lähde”
  • French: “source de Gihon”
  • French: “Source de Gihon”
  • German: “Gihonquelle”
  • Hebrew: “גיחון”
  • Hebrew: “מעיין הגיחון”
  • Hebrew: “מעיין השילוח”
  • Hungarian: “Gíhon-forrás”
  • Indonesian: “Mata air Gihon”
  • Italian: “Sorgente di Gihon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gihonkilden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gihonkjelda”
  • Norwegian: “Gihonkilden”
  • Persian: “چشمه جیحون”
  • Polish: “Źródło Gichon”
  • Portuguese: “Fonte de Giom”
  • Romanian: “Ghihon”
  • Romanian: “Izvorul Ghihon al Fecioarei Maria”
  • Russian: “Гихон”
  • Russian: “Источник Гихон”
  • Spanish: “Fuente del Gihon”
  • Spanish: “Fuente del Gihón”
  • Swedish: “Gihonkällan”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіхон”
  • Yiddish: “גיחון קוואל”

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Highlights include Warren’s Shaft and Ancient Tomb Lookout.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gichon Spring”. Photo: David Roberts (painter), Public domain.