Mount Precipice

Mount Precipice, also known as Mount of Precipitation, Mount of the Leap of the Lord and Mount Kedumim is located just outside the southern edge of , 2.0 km southwest of the modern city center.
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Photo: Almog, Public domain.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 397 metres
  • Description: mountain south of Nazareth in Israel
  • Also known as: “Har Haqfisah”, “Har Kdumim”, “Har Qafza”, “Har Qedumim”, “Jabal al Cafza”, “Jabal al-Qafza”, “Jabal Qafza”, “Jebel el Cafza”, “Jebel el Qafzah”, “Jebel Kafsy”, “Leap of Our Lord”, “Leap of the Lord”, “Leaping Mountain”, “Mount Hakifza”, “Mount Kdumim”, “Mount Kedumim”, “Mount of Precipice”, “Mount of Precipitation”, “Mount of the Leap”, “Mount Qafza”, “Mount Qafzeh”, and “Mount Qedumim”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of the Annunciation and Al-Masjid Al-Abyadh.

Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The , sometimes also referred to as the Basilica of the Annunciation, is a Catholic church in , in northern . It is one of two claimants to the site of the Annunciation – in which angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced that she would give birth to Jesus – the other being the .

Mosque
Photo: Rudko, CC0.
The White Mosque, is a , located in , in the northern district of . The mosque is situated in Harat Alghama, or the Mosque Quarter, in the centre of Nazareth's Old Market area.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is a tourist attraction and open-air museum in , that recreates and reenacts village life in the Galilee in first century A.D, the time of Jesus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nazareth and Nof HaGalil.

Photo: Tiamat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in northern . It is the largest Arab city in Israel proper, having a population of 60,000, a harmonious mix of Muslims and Christians.

Town
Photo: Beny Shlevich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in the of with a population of 45,587. was founded in 1957 as Nazareth Illit, it was planned as a Jewish town overlooking the city of and the .

Town
Photo: Amit A., Public domain.
is an Arab town in Israel. It forms part of the metropolitan area of , also an Arab locality. Declared a local council in 1960, it had a population of 18,603 in 2023, approximately 83% of whom were Muslim and 17% Christian.

Mount Precipice

Latitude
32.6807° or 32° 40′ 51″ north
Longitude
35.298° or 35° 17′ 53″ east
Elevation
397 metres (1,302 feet)
Open location code
8G4QM7JX+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278477641
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Wiki­data ID
Q2602652
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Venetian—“Mount Precipice” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Mons Excelsus Valde”
  • Arabic: “جبل القفزة”
  • Arabic: “جبل كدوميم”
  • Basque: “Amildegiaren mendia”
  • Catalan: “Muntanya del Precipici”
  • Cebuano: “Har Qedumim (arkiyolohiyang dapit, lat 32,68, long 35,30)”
  • Cebuano: “Har Qedumim”
  • Chinese: “卡夫泽”
  • Chinese: “卡夫澤”
  • Czech: “Har ha-Kfica”
  • Czech: “Har HaKfitza”
  • Czech: “Har Kidumim”
  • Dutch: “Mount Precipice”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل القفزه”
  • French: “Le Saut de Nostre Seigneur”
  • French: “Le Saut”
  • French: “Mont de la Précipitation”
  • French: “mont du Précipice”
  • French: “Mont du Précipice”
  • Hebrew: “ג’בל אל-קפזה”
  • Hebrew: “ג’בל אלקפזה”
  • Hebrew: “ג’בל קפזה”
  • Hebrew: “הר הקפיצה”
  • Hebrew: “הר קדומים”
  • Italian: “Jebel Qafzeh”
  • Italian: “Monte del Precipizio”
  • Italian: “Monte del Salto”
  • Ladin: “Mount Precipice”
  • Latin: “Saltus Domini”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Har Kedumim”
  • Polish: “Har Kidumim”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Precipício”
  • Russian: “Гора Свержения”
  • Spanish: “Monte del Precipicio”
  • Tamil: “கஃப்சா மலை”
  • Venetian: “Monte del Precipizio”

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