Central Post Office
The Central post office building is a British Mandate-era building on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem.Photo: Nl4wik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Post office
- Description: architectural structure in Jaffa Street, Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Central Post Office Building”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Safra Square and Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Safra Square
Square
Photo: Yoninah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Safra Square is a city square in Jerusalem. It is the site of the Jerusalem Municipality complex, which houses the municipal administration. Safra Square is located in a central part of the city, near the former seam line between West and East Jerusalem, a site chosen to symbolize its goal of serving all residents of Jerusalem. Safra Square is situated 130 metres east of Central Post Office.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Church of the Holy Sepulchre is situated 720 metres east of Central Post Office.
Jerusalem Townhall
Town hall
The Jerusalem Municipality, the seat of the Israeli municipal administration, consists of a number of buildings located on Jaffa Road in the city of Jerusalem. Jerusalem Townhall is situated 170 metres northeast of Central Post Office.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Russian Compound and Nahalat Shiva.
Russian Compound
Suburb
The Russian Compound is one of the oldest districts in central Jerusalem, featuring a large Russian Orthodox church, the Russian-owned Sergei's Courtyard and the premises of the Russian Consulate General in Jerusalem, as well as the site of former pilgrim hostels, some of which are used as Israeli government buildings, and one of which hosts the Museum of Underground Prisoners.
Nahalat Shiva
Neighborhood
Nahalat Shiv'a is a former courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem. It was the third Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1860s.
West Jerusalem
Photo: Ting Chen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Jerusalem 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.
Central Post Office
- Category: building
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.78007° or 31° 46′ 48″ northLongitude
35.22241° or 35° 13′ 21″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6JC+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 561080338OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=post_officeWikidata ID
Q5061690
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Romanian—“Central Post Office” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مبنى مكتب البريد المركزي (القدس)”
- Arabic: “مبنى مكتب البريد المركزي”
- Chinese: “耶路撒冷中央邮局大楼”
- Hebrew: “Jerusalem Central Post Office”
- Hebrew: “בית הדואר המרכזי”
- Hebrew: “בניין הדואר המרכזי (ירושלים)”
- Hebrew: “דואר ישראל סניף ראשי”
- Romanian: “Poșta israeliană”
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