abdeen
Abdeen Mosque is the main mosque in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in East Jerusalem which is predominantly Muslim and mainly of the Sunni tradition, situated some 1,200 meters north of the al‑Aqsa mosque, or the Temple Mount.- Type: Mosque
- Description: mosque in Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Abdeen Mosque”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Scopus and Dome of the Rock.
Mount Scopus
Peak
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
Photo: DoaaFayad0, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 south of abdeen.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wadi al-Joz and Sheikh Jarrah.
Wadi al-Joz
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi al-Joz, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, located at the head of the Kidron Valley, north of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Sheikh Jarrah
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sheikh Jarrah is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.
Kiryat Menachem Begin
Neighborhood
Kiryat Menachem Begin, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in East Jerusalem located between Sheikh Jarrah in the north, adjacent to Mount Scopus in the east and Ammunition Hill in the west.
abdeen
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.79108° or 31° 47′ 28″ northLongitude
35.23865° or 35° 14′ 19″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6RQ+CFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2407925683OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q4664714
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“abdeen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسجد عابدين”
- Bengali: “আবদীন মসজিদ”
- Chinese: “阿卜丁清真寺”
- French: “mosquée Abdeen”
- French: “Mosquée Abdeen”
- Fulah: “Abdeen Mosque”
- Hebrew: “abdeen”
- Hebrew: “מסגד אבדין”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Abdeen”
- Persian: “مسجد عابدین”
- Urdu: “مسجد عابدین”
- Uzbek: “Abdin masjidi”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Al-Maqdisi Organization and Hecht Synagogue.
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