German Protestant Institute of Archaeology
The German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, Research Unit of the German Archaeological Institute, founded in 1900, is a leading biblical archaeological institute in Jerusalem.- Type: Research
- Description: German research institute in Amman and Jerusalem
- Also known as: “DEIAHL”, “Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes”, and “German Protestant Institute”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount of Olives and Mount Scopus.
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.
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
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 southwest of German Protestant Institute of Archaeology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include At-Tur and Gethsemane.
At-Tur
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At-Tur is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
Gethsemane
Locality
Photo: Mewasul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gethsemane is a garden as well as a courtyard at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
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.
German Protestant Institute of Archaeology
- Categories: research institute, facility, office, and education
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.78614° or 31° 47′ 10″ northLongitude
35.2507° or 35° 15′ 3″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ7P2+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 673781364OpenStreetMap feature
office=researchWikidata ID
Q1205614
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“German Protestant Institute of Archaeology” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المعهد الألماني البروتستانتي”
- French: “Institut protestant allemand d’archéologie au Proche-Orient”
- German: “Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes”
- Hebrew: “המכון הפרוטסטנטי הגרמני”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes”
- Ukrainian: “Німецький протестантський інститут археології”
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