Nazareth

Nazareth is a city in northern . It is the largest Arab city in Israel proper, having a population of 60,000, a harmonious mix of Muslims and Christians.
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  • Type: Town with 65,000 residents
  • Description: city in Israel; predominantly inhabited by Muslim-Arab citizens of Israel; a center of Christian pilgrimage as the childhood home of Jesus
  • Also known as: “an-Nāṣira”, “En Nasira”, “En Nāsira”, “Naṣrath”, “Natserat”, “Natseret”, “Natséret”, “Natsrat”, “Nātsrat”, “Natzrat”, “Nazzerat”, and “Naẕẕerat”
Photo: Masterjohn1881, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of the Annunciation and Al-Masjid Al-Abyadh.

Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The , sometimes also referred to as the Basilica of the Annunciation, is a church in Nazareth, in northern . It is one of two claimants to the site of the Annunciation – in which angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced that she would give birth to Jesus – the other being the .

Mosque
Photo: Rudko, CC0.
The White Mosque, is a , located in Nazareth, in the northern district of . The mosque is situated in Harat Alghama, or the Mosque Quarter, in the centre of Nazareth's Old Market area.

Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The Greek Orthodox Church of St. Gabriel, also known as the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, is an Eastern Orthodox church in Nazareth, Israel. It is one of two claimants to the site of the Annunciation—where angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and announced that she would give birth to Jesus—the other being the Catholic .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nof HaGalil and Reineh.

Town
Photo: Beny Shlevich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in the of with a population of 45,805. was founded in 1957 as Nazareth Illit, it was planned as a Jewish town overlooking the city of Nazareth and the .

Village
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
is an Arab town in northern . Located in the Galilee, between Nazareth and , it attained local council status in 1968. In 2024 it had a population of 20,653, the majority of whom are Muslims, with a significant Christian minority.

Town
Photo: Amit A., Public domain.
is an Arab town in Israel. It forms part of the metropolitan area of Nazareth, also an Arab locality. Declared a local council in 1960, it had a population of 18,837 in 2024, approximately 80.7% of whom were Muslim and 19.3% Christian. is situated 3½ km southwest of Nazareth.

Nazareth

Latitude
32.7066° or 32° 42′ 24″ north
Longitude
35.3049° or 35° 18′ 18″ east
Population
65,000
Elevation
333 metres (1,093 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL NAZ
Open location code
8G4QP843+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278477461
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
294098
Wiki­data ID
Q430776
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Nazareth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nasaret”
  • Albanian: “Nazareti”
  • Amharic: “ናዝሬት፣ እስራኤል”
  • Arabic: “الناصرة في المسيحية”
  • Arabic: “الناصرة”
  • Arabic: “الناصره”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الناصرة”
  • Arabic: “ناصرة”
  • Arabic: “ناصيرات”
  • Arabic: “نتسرات”
  • Aragonese: “Nazaret”
  • Armenian: “Նազարեթ”
  • Asturian: “Nazaré”
  • Asturian: “Nazaret”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nazaret”
  • Balinese: “Nazareth”
  • Basque: “Nazaret”
  • Belarusian: “Назарэт”
  • Bengali: “নাসরৎ”
  • Bosnian: “Nazaret”
  • Breton: “Nazared”
  • Breton: “Nazaret”
  • Bulgarian: “Назарет”
  • Burmese: “နာဇရက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Natzaret”
  • Cebuano: “Nazaret”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناسرە”
  • Chinese: “拿撒勒”
  • Church Slavic: “Наꙁарєѳъ”
  • Corsican: “Nazareth”
  • Croatian: “Nazaret”
  • Czech: “Nazaret”
  • Danish: “Nazaret”
  • Danish: “Nazareth”
  • Dutch: “Nazareth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الناصره”
  • Esperanto: “Nazareto”
  • Estonian: “Naatsaret”
  • Finnish: “Nasaret”
  • French: “Nazareth”
  • Galician: “Nazaret”
  • Georgian: “ნაზარეთი”
  • German: “Nazaret”
  • German: “Nazareth”
  • Greek: “Νάζαρα”
  • Greek: “Ναζαρέτ”
  • Greek: “Νατσέρετ”
  • Guarani: “Nasare”
  • Gujarati: “નાઝારેથ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nâ-sat-le̍t”
  • Hebrew: “Naẕerat”
  • Hebrew: “נצרת”
  • Hindi: “नाज़रथ”
  • Hindi: “नासरत”
  • Hungarian: “Názáret”
  • Iban: “Nasaret”
  • Icelandic: “Nasaret”
  • Ido: “Nazaret”
  • Inari Sami: “Nasaret”
  • Indonesian: “Nazaret”
  • Ingush: “Назарет”
  • Irish: “Nazarat”
  • Italian: “Nazaret”
  • Italian: “Nazareth”
  • Japanese: “ナザレ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nazareth”
  • Kannada: “ನಜರೆತ್”
  • Kashubian: “Nazaret”
  • Korean: “나사렛”
  • Korean: “나자렛”
  • Kurdish: “Nisret”
  • Ladino: “Nazaret”
  • Latin: “Nazara”
  • Latin: “Nazareth”
  • Latvian: “Nācarete”
  • Limburgan: “Nazareth”
  • Lingala: “Nazaleti”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nazaret”
  • Lithuanian: “Nazaretas”
  • Lombard: “Nazareth”
  • Low German: “Nazareth”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nazaret”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nazareth”
  • Macedonian: “Назарет”
  • Malagasy: “Nazareta”
  • Malay: “Nasirah”
  • Malay: “Nazerath”
  • Malayalam: “നസ്രെത്ത്”
  • Maltese: “Nazaret”
  • Manx: “Nasair”
  • Maori: “Nahareta”
  • Marathi: “नाझारेथ”
  • Mazanderani: “ناصره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nā-sák-lĕk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ná-sat-le̍k”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ná-sat-li̍k”
  • Mingrelian: “ნაზარეთი”
  • Mingrelian: “ნაცრათი”
  • Mongolian: “Назар”
  • Mongolian: “Назарет”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الناصرة”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nazareth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nasaret”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nasaret”
  • Norwegian: “Nasaret”
  • Nyanja: “Nazareti”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nazaret”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܨܪܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡍࡉࡑࡓࡀࡕ ࡌࡃࡉࡍࡕࡀ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡍࡉࡑࡓࡀࡕ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nasarēþ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nazarēth”
  • Ossetian: “Назарет”
  • Persian: “ناصره”
  • Polish: “Nazaret”
  • Portuguese: “an-Nāṣira”
  • Portuguese: “Naṣrath”
  • Portuguese: “Natzrat”
  • Portuguese: “Nazaré”
  • Portuguese: “Nazareth”
  • Quechua: “Natsarit”
  • Romanian: “Nazaret”
  • Russian: “Назарет”
  • Russian: “Нацрат”
  • Scots: “Nazareth”
  • Serbian: “Назарет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nazaret”
  • Silesian: “Nazaret”
  • Sinhala: “නාසරෙත්”
  • Slovak: “Nazaret”
  • Slovenian: “Nazaret”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ناصره”
  • Spanish: “Nazaret”
  • Swahili: “an-Nāṣira”
  • Swahili: “Naṣrath”
  • Swahili: “Natzrat”
  • Swahili: “Nazareti”
  • Swedish: “Nasaret”
  • Swiss German: “Nazareth”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Nazaret”
  • Tagalog: “Nazaret”
  • Tamil: “நாசரேத்து”
  • Telugu: “నాజరేత్”
  • Thai: “นาซาเรธ”
  • Thai: “นาซาเร็ธ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nazareth”
  • Turkish: “Nasıra”
  • Uighur: “نازارې”
  • Ukrainian: “Назарет”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nazaret”
  • Urdu: “ناصرت”
  • Urdu: “ناصرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Nazareth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nazaret”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nazareth”
  • Welsh: “Nasareth”
  • Western Armenian: “Նազարէթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Nazaret”
  • Western Frisian: “Nazareth”
  • Western Panjabi: “ناصره”
  • Western Panjabi: “ناصرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拿撒勒”
  • Yiddish: “נצרת”
  • Yue Chinese: “拿撒勒”
  • Zeeuws: “Nazareth”
  • “Nazaret”

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