Tombs of the Sanhedrin
Tombs of the Sanhedrin, also Tombs of the Judges, is an underground complex of 63 rock-cut tombs located in a public park in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sanhedria.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sanhedrin Park and Sanhedriya Cemetery.
Sanhedriya Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: דניאל צבי, Public domain.
Sanhedria Cemetery is a 27-dunam Jewish burial ground in the Sanhedria neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the intersection of Levi Eshkol Boulevard, Shmuel HaNavi Street, and Bar-Ilan Street. Sanhedriya Cemetery is situated 430 metres southeast of Tombs of the Sanhedrin.
Ammunition Hill
Battlefield
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ammunition Hill was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of Mount Scopus. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War. Ammunition Hill is situated 1 km east of Tombs of the Sanhedrin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sanhedria and Sanhedria Murhevet.
Sanhedria
Suburb
Photo: Nettadi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sanhedria is a neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. It lies east of Golda Meir Street, adjacent to Ramat Eshkol, Shmuel HaNavi, Maalot Dafna and the Sanhedria Cemetery.
Sanhedria Murhevet
Suburb
Sanhedria HaMurhevet is a Haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem. Its name translates as "expanded Sanhedria". The neighborhood was founded in 1970 as a northern expansion of Sanhedria.
Ramat Eshkol
Suburb
Ramat Eshkol is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in northern East Jerusalem. It was built on land captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War and occupied by Israel since 1967, and was the first settlement built in East Jerusalem beyond the Green Line by Israel.
Tombs of the Sanhedrin
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: underground complex of 63 rock-cut tombs in Jerusalem
- Categories: Jewish cemetery, cemetery, tourism, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.80001° or 31° 48′ northLongitude
35.21846° or 35° 13′ 7″ eastOpen location code
8G3QR629+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 3512867683OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q3531182
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yiddish—“Tombs of the Sanhedrin” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “猶太公會墓”
- Czech: “Hrobky v Sanhedrinu”
- Dutch: “Tombs of the Sanhedrin”
- Esperanto: “Ĝardeno de la tomboj de la Sinedrio”
- Esperanto: “Tomboj de la Sinedrio”
- French: “Tombes du Sanhédrin”
- Hebrew: “מערות הסנהדרין”
- Hebrew: “קברי הסנהדרין”
- Ladino: “Tumbas del Sanedrín”
- Macedonian: “Градината на Синедрионот гробници”
- Spanish: “Tumbas del Sanedrín”
- Ukrainian: “Гробниці Синедріону”
- Yiddish: “קברים פון די סנהדרין”
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