Monastery of St. Martha

Places of Interest Nearby

Mount of Olives

Peak

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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 Monastery of St. Martha.

Dome of the Rock

Place of worship

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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 2 km northwest of Monastery of St. Martha.

Places in the Area

Ras al-Amud

Suburb

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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.

Al-Eizariya

Town

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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.

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