Al-Qabu
Al-Qabu was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The name is an Arabic variation of the site's original Roman name, and the ruins of a church there are thought to date to the era of Byzantine or Crusader rule over Palestine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beitar and Yad Kennedy.
Beitar
Ruins
Betar was an ancient Jewish town in the Judaean Mountains, continuously inhabited since the Iron Age and up until the 2nd century CE. It is most famously known as the final stronghold of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Beitar is situated 1½ km east of Al-Qabu.
Yad Kennedy
Yad Kennedy, located in the Mateh Yehuda Region near Jerusalem, is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Yad Kennedy is situated 3 km northeast of Al-Qabu.
Rubinstein memorial
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Avi1111, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rubinstein memorial is a scenic viewpoint, which is situated 3 km northeast of Al-Qabu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mevo Beiter and Battir.
Mevo Beiter
Village
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mevo Beitar is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located ten kilometres south-west of Jerusalem in the Jerusalem corridor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,125.
Battir
Village
Photo: Ali.batha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Battir is a Palestinian village in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the West Bank, 6.4 km west of Bethlehem, and southwest of Jerusalem.
Tzur Hadassah
Village
Photo: Idont, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tzur Hadassah is a town located in the Jerusalem Corridor, located 12 kilometres southwest of Jerusalem, at an altitude of 755 meters above sea level, located on Route 375 west of Beitar Illit, about one kilometer west of the Green Line, adjacent to the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin. Tzur Hadassah is situated 2½ km southwest of Al-Qabu.
Al-Qabu
- Type: Ruins
- Description: village in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
- Categories: village, depopulated Palestinian village, human settlement, and historic site
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.72828° or 31° 43′ 42″ northLongitude
35.11916° or 35° 7′ 9″ eastOpen location code
8G3QP4H9+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 8226016733OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q4703048
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Al-Qabu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القبو (القدس)”
- Arabic: “القبو”
- Hebrew: “אל קאבו”
- Hebrew: “אל קבו”
- Hebrew: “אל-קאבו”
- Hebrew: “אל-קבו”
- Hebrew: “אלקבו”
- Indonesian: “Al-Qabu”
- Urdu: “القبو”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Al-Qabu”. Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.