Middle East
Israel
Haifa District

Beit HaGefen

The Beit Ha'Gefen Arab-Jewish Cultural Center in , , is a multi-cultural organization that aims to bring together Arabs and Jews and promote coexistence and tolerance.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: a multi-cultural organisation
  • Also known as: “Beit-HaGefen Arab Jewish Culture Center”
  • Address: 2 הגפן

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Haifa Museum of Art and Shrine of the Bab.

Museum
Photo: Talmoryair, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930s in , downtown . Ranking as Israel's third largest art museum, the museum focuses on Israeli and international contemporary art, and its collection includes 7,000 items, mostly of contemporary Israeli art.

Bahá’í temple
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The Shrine of the Báb is a structure on the slopes of in , , where the remains of the Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith and forerunner of Baháʼu'lláh in the Baháʼí Faith, are buried; it is considered to be the second holiest place on Earth for Baháʼís, after the in Acre. is situated 530 metres west of Beit HaGefen.

A Baháʼí House of Worship, or Baháʼí temple, is a place of worship in the Baháʼí Faith. It is also referred to as Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, which in Arabic means "Dawning-place of the remembrances of God". is situated 660 metres southwest of Beit HaGefen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wadi Nisnas and Haifa.

Suburb
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is a predominantly Arab neighborhood in the city of , with a population of about 8,000 inhabitants.

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is the third largest city in and the largest city in the north of the country with a population of 282,000. The city is located on Israel's Mediterranean shoreline, on Mount Carmel and at its foot.

Suburb
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The is an area of established in 1868 during Ottoman rule as a Christian German Templer Colony in Palestine. It was the first of several colonies established by the group in the .

Beit HaGefen

Latitude
32.81594° or 32° 48′ 57″ north
Longitude
34.99259° or 34° 59′ 33″ east
Open location code
8G4PRX8V+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8583546317
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q4278937
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Beit HaGefen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيت الكرامة”
  • German: “Kulturzentrum”
  • Hebrew: “בית הגפן - מרכז ערבי יהודי לתרבות חברה ונער”
  • Hebrew: “בית הגפן - מרכז תרבות ערבי יהודי”
  • Hebrew: “בית הגפן”
  • Hebrew: “מרכז ערבי יהודי על שם פלינסקי”
  • Japanese: “ベイト・ハ・ゲフェン”
  • Russian: “Бейт Хагефен”

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Highlights include Falafel HaZkenim and Saint Luke Church.

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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 “Beit HaGefen”. Photo: Almog, Public domain.