Western Wall Plaza

The Western Wall Plaza is a large public square situated adjacent to the in the of the of , . It was formed in 1967 as a result of the razing of the Mughrabi Quarter neighborhood at the very end of the Six-Day War.
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Square
  • Description: Public square in the Old City of Jerusalem
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Western Wall and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Synagogue
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The is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Arab world and Islamic world as the Buraq Wall.

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or in the compound in the Old City of . is situated 150 metres east of Western Wall Plaza.

Place of worship
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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 220 metres northeast of Western Wall Plaza.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewish Quarter and Old City.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four traditional quarters of the . The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the and the in the east.

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The of Jerusalem is that part of surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of , the other three being the , the and the .

Western Wall Plaza

Latitude
31.77636° or 31° 46′ 35″ north
Longitude
35.23398° or 35° 14′ 2″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
way 26492734
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Wiki­data ID
Q24009481
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yiddish—“Western Wall Plaza” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Western Wall Plaza”
  • Arabic: “ساحة البراق”
  • Arabic: “ويسترن وول بلازا (حائط البراق)”
  • Arabic: “ويسترن وول بلازا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağlama divarı Plaza”
  • Basque: “Erosten Harresiko plaza”
  • Breton: “Moger an Daeroù”
  • Bulgarian: “Стена на плача (площад)”
  • Bulgarian: “Стена на плача”
  • Burmese: “ဂျေရုဆလင်မြို့အနောက်ဖက်မြို့ရိုး ပလာဇာ”
  • Catalan: “Plaça del Mur de les Lamentacions”
  • Cebuano: “Western Wall Plaza”
  • Chinese: “西墙广场”
  • Czech: “prostranství u Zdi nářků”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de la Muro de lamentadoj”
  • Finnish: “Länsimuurin aukio”
  • French: “Mur des Lamentations Plaza”
  • French: “Mur des Lamentations”
  • French: “Place du Mur occidental”
  • German: “Klagemauerplatz”
  • Gujarati: “પાશ્ચાત્ય વોલ પ્લાઝા”
  • Haitian: “Lwès mi Plaza”
  • Hawaiian: “Western Wall Plaza”
  • Hebrew: “רחבת הכותל המערבי”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी दीवार प्लाजा”
  • Hungarian: “Siratófal tér”
  • Icelandic: “Grátmúrstorg”
  • Irish: “Plás an Bhalla Thiar”
  • Khmer: “លោកខាងលិចជញ្ជាំងផ្លាហ្សា”
  • Khmer: “វេស្ថឺនវ៉លផ្លាហ្សា”
  • Korean: “서쪽 벽 광장”
  • Korean: “통곡의 벽 광장”
  • Macedonian: “Ѕидот на плачот”
  • Malay: “Tembok Meratap Plaza”
  • Malayalam: “വെസ്റ്റേൺ പ്ലാസ”
  • Maori: “Western Wall Plaza”
  • Marathi: “पश्चिम भिंतीचा चौक”
  • Nepali: “पश्चिमी पर्खाल प्लाज”
  • Portuguese: “Praça do Muro das Lamentações”
  • Russian: “Площадь Западной стены”
  • Russian: “площадь Стены Плача”
  • Serbian: “Зид плача Плаза”
  • Spanish: “Muro de las Lamentaciones Plaza”
  • Spanish: “Muro de las Lamentaciones”
  • Spanish: “Plaza del Muro de las Lamentaciones”
  • Sundanese: “Western Besar Plaza”
  • Swedish: “Västra muren torg”
  • Swedish: “Västra murens torg”
  • Tagalog: “Kanluranin Pader Liwasan”
  • Telugu: “వెస్ట్రన్ వాల్ ప్లాజా”
  • Turkish: “Ağlama Duvarı Meydanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Площа Стіни плачу”
  • Ukrainian: “Стіна плачу Плаза”
  • Vietnamese: “Bức tường phía Tây Plaza”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Bức tường Than Khóc”
  • Western Frisian: “Westmuorreplein”
  • Yiddish: “כותל מערבי פלאץ”

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Highlights include Western Wall women’s section and Western Wall men’s section.

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