Pool of Bethesda

The Pool of Bethesda is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in , described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: reservoir in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Bethesda Pool”, “Estanque de Bethesda”, “Estanque de Betzatá”, “Piscina de Betesda”, “Piscina de bethesda”, “Piscina di Betesda”, “Piscina probatica”, “Piscine de bethesda”, “Reservatório de betsata”, “Reservatório de Betsata”, “Tanque de betesda”, “Teich Betesda”, “Исцеление расслабленного при овчей купели”, “Овечья купель”, “בריכות בית חסדא”, “בריכת בית חסדא”, “בריכת הצאן”, “बैतहसदा”, “베데스다 못”, “벳자타 못”, “벳자타 연못”, and “ベセスダのプール”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Anne Church and Dome of the Rock.

Church
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The Church of Saint Anne is a French church and part of the French national domain in the Holy Land located in the of the Old City of , near the start of the Via Dolorosa, next to the .

Mosque
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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 390 metres south of Pool of Bethesda.

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque, is the main congregational mosque or in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of . is situated 590 metres south of Pool of Bethesda.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Jerusalem and Muslim Quarter.

Photo: Papierdrache, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

Locality
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is a garden as well as a courtyard at the foot of the in , where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

Pool of Bethesda

Latitude
31.78147° or 31° 46′ 53″ north
Longitude
35.23599° or 35° 14′ 10″ east
Wheelchair access
limited
Open location code
8G3QQ6JP+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 126864878
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q831297
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wolof—“Pool of Bethesda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بركة بيت حسدا”
  • Basque: “Betzatako urmaela”
  • Breton: “Poull Betesda”
  • Bulgarian: “Витезда”
  • Catalan: “Betzatà”
  • Chinese: “毕士大池”
  • Chinese: “畢士大池”
  • Czech: “Bethesda”
  • Dutch: “Baden van Bethesda”
  • Dutch: “Pool of Bethesda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بركة بيت حسدا”
  • Esperanto: “lageto Betesda”
  • Esperanto: “Lageto Betesda”
  • Finnish: “Betesda”
  • Finnish: “Betesdan allas”
  • French: “piscine de Bethesda”
  • French: “Piscine de Bethesda”
  • German: “Bethesda”
  • German: “Teich Bethesda”
  • Greek: “Βηθεσδά”
  • Hebrew: “בית חסדא”
  • Hebrew: “בריכות הצאן”
  • Hindi: “बैतहसदा का कुंड”
  • Hungarian: “Bethesda fürdő”
  • Hungarian: “Bethesda”
  • Indonesian: “Betesda”
  • Italian: “piscina di Betzaeta”
  • Italian: “Piscina di Betzaeta”
  • Italian: “Piscina Probatica”
  • Japanese: “ベトザタの池”
  • Korean: “베데스다 연못”
  • Korean: “베데스다못”
  • Macedonian: “Бетезда”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Betesda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Betesdadammen”
  • Persian: “تالاب بیت حسدا”
  • Polish: “Sadzawka Owcza”
  • Portuguese: “Tanque de Betesda”
  • Romanian: “Scăldătoarea Betezda”
  • Russian: “Вифезда”
  • Serbian: “Витезда”
  • Spanish: “Estanque de Betesda”
  • Spanish: “Piscina de Bethesda”
  • Swedish: “Betesda”
  • Tamil: “பெத்சதாக் குளம்”
  • Turkish: “Beytesta Havuzu”
  • Ukrainian: “Віфезда”
  • Urdu: “حوض بیت حسدا”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Bethesda”
  • Wolof: “Betesda”

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