Western Wall Plaza
The Western Wall Plaza is a large public square situated adjacent to the Western Wall in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. 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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- Type: Square
- Description: Public square in the Old City of Jerusalem
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Western Wall and Dome of the Rock.
Dome of the Rock
Mosque
Dome of the Rock
Mosque
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine… Dome of the Rock is situated 220 metres northeast of Western Wall Plaza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jewish Quarter and Old City.
Jewish Quarter
Neighborhood
Western Wall Plaza
- Categories: pedestrian zone and locality
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.77636° or 31° 46′ 35″ north
Longitude
35.23398° or 35° 14′ 2″ east
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
8G3QQ6GM+GH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrian
OpenStreetMap feature
place=square
Wikidata ID
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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”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Western Wall women’s section and Western Wall men’s section.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Colel Chabad Free Kitchen for the Needy and Mughrabi Gate.
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Worth a closer look: Bethlehem and Ramallah.
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