Meah Shearim

Mea Shearim is a neighborhood in . It is one of the oldest Ashkenazi neighborhoods in outside of the Old City. It is populated by Ashkenazi Haredi Jews, and was built by members of the Old Yishuv.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Mea She’arim”, “Mea Shearim”, and “Meʾah Sheʻarim”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Kidane Mehret Church.

Church
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The , also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the of the of .

Church
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The in , popularly known simply as the Ethiopian Church, is part of the Debre Genet monastery, whose name means "Monastery of Paradise".

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beit Yisroel and Batei Ungarin.

Suburb
Beit Yisrael is a predominantly Haredi neighborhood in central . It is located just north of Mea Shearim. The name Beit Yisrael is taken from the verse in Ezekiel 36:10, in which Ezekiel prophesies to the hills and mountains of Israel, "I shall make…

Neighborhood
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is a Haredi Jewish neighborhood in , north-east of the . It was built by Kolel Ungarin, a Jewish charity supporting Jews living in the Land of Israel.

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represents the modern commercial heart of the city, which was the focus for development in the capital from the time of Israeli independence in 1948 to the reunification of the city with the Six Day War in 1967.

Meah Shearim

Latitude
31.78656° or 31° 47′ 12″ north
Longitude
35.22081° or 35° 13′ 15″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6PC+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2081525617
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q1025293
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Meah Shearim” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مئة شعاريم”
  • Arabic: “ميا شعريم”
  • Basque: “Mea Shearim”
  • Catalan: “Mea Shearim”
  • Chinese: “梅阿謝阿里姆”
  • Chinese: “百倍之地”
  • Chinese: “百門區”
  • Czech: “Me’a Še’arim”
  • Czech: “Mea Šearim”
  • Dutch: “Mea Sjearim”
  • Dutch: “Meah Shearim”
  • Finnish: “Mea Shearim”
  • French: “Mea Sharim”
  • French: “Mea Shearim”
  • French: “Méa Shéarim”
  • French: “Meah Shearim”
  • German: “Me’a Sche’arim”
  • German: “Mea Schearim”
  • German: “Mea Shearim”
  • Hebrew: “מאה שערים”
  • Hebrew: “שכונת מאה שערים”
  • Indonesian: “Mea Shearim”
  • Italian: “Mea Shearim”
  • Japanese: “メーアー・シェアーリーム”
  • Japanese: “メア・シェアリーム”
  • Japanese: “メアー・シェアーリーム”
  • Ladino: “Mea Shearim”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mea Shearim”
  • Norwegian: “Mea Shearim”
  • Polish: “Me’a Sze’arim”
  • Portuguese: “Mea Shearim”
  • Romanian: “Mea Shearim”
  • Russian: “Меа Шеарим”
  • Russian: “Меа-Шеарим”
  • Serbian: “Меа шеарим”
  • Spanish: “Mea Sharim”
  • Spanish: “Mea Shearim”
  • Turkish: “Mea Şearim”
  • Yiddish: “מאה שערים”

Localities in the Area

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