Orient House

Orient House is a building located in that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1980s and 1990s. Built in 1897 by Ismail Musa Al-Husseini, it has been owned by the Al-Husseini family since.
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  • Type: Public building
  • Description: house
  • Also known as: “New Orient House”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tombs of the Kings and St. George’s Cathedral.

Cemetery
Photo: Amit A., Public domain.
The are a rock-cut funerary complex in believed to be the burial site of Queen Helene of Adiabene, hence: Helena's Monuments.

Church
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. George's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in , , established in 1899. It became the seat of the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, having taken the title from , built 50 years before. is situated 160 metres southwest of Orient House.

Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . 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. is situated 1¼ km south of Orient House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bab az-Zahra and Batei Ungarin.

Suburb
Photo: Sir kiss, Public domain.
is an Arab neighborhood in , north of the . It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, to the east, and on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and to the west.

Neighborhood
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is a Haredi Jewish neighborhood in , north-east of the . It was built by Kolel Ungarin, a Jewish charity supporting Jews living in the Land of Israel.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in , located at the head of the , north of the .

Orient House

Latitude
31.78905° or 31° 47′ 21″ north
Longitude
35.23001° or 35° 13′ 48″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6QJ+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 708509873
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­public
Wiki­data ID
Q1433121
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Orient House” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيت الشرق”
  • Bengali: “ওরিয়েন্ট হাউস”
  • Chinese: “东方宫”
  • Czech: “Orient House”
  • Dutch: “Orient House”
  • Esperanto: “Orient House”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Domo”
  • French: “Maison d’Orient”
  • German: “Orienthaus”
  • Hebrew: “אוריינט האוס”
  • Hebrew: “האוריינט האוס”
  • Italian: “Orient House”
  • Japanese: “オリエントハウス”
  • Macedonian: “Ориент Хаус”
  • Portuguese: “Casa do Oriente”
  • Russian: “Ориент Хаус”
  • Russian: “Ориент-хаус”
  • Spanish: “Casa de Oriente”
  • Spanish: “Orient House”
  • Turkish: “Orient House”

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