Mir Yeshiva

The Mir Yeshiva, known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in , . With over 9,000 single and married students, it is the largest yeshiva in the world.
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  • Type: Synagogue
  • Description: Jewish orthodox yeshiva located in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Mir Yeshiva Jerusalem”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Dome of the Rock.

Church
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The , also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the of the of . is situated 1¼ km southeast of Mir Yeshiva.

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 1½ km southeast of Mir Yeshiva.

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The is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to , which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times… is situated 1 km southeast of Mir Yeshiva.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beit Yisroel and Batei Ungarin.

Suburb
Beit Yisrael is a predominantly Haredi neighborhood in central . It is located just north of .

Neighborhood
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is a Haredi Jewish neighborhood in , north-east of the . It was built by Kolel Ungarin, a Jewish charity supporting Jews living in the Land of Israel.

Suburb
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Mea Shearim is a neighborhood in . It is one of the oldest Ashkenazi neighborhoods in outside of the Old City. It is populated by Ashkenazi Haredi Jews, and was built by members of the Old Yishuv.

Mir Yeshiva

Latitude
31.78856° or 31° 47′ 19″ north
Longitude
35.22412° or 35° 13′ 27″ east
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yiddish—“Mir Yeshiva” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Ieixivà de Mir”
  • Catalan: “Ieixivà Mir Jerusalem”
  • Catalan: “Ieixivà Mir”
  • Chinese: “米爾神學院”
  • Esperanto: “Jeŝivo Mir”
  • French: “yechiva de Mir”
  • French: “Yechiva de Mir”
  • Hebrew: “ישיבת מיר”
  • Spanish: “Yeshivá Mir Jerusalén”
  • Spanish: “Yeshivá Mir”
  • Turkish: “Mir Yeşivası”
  • Yiddish: “מירער ישיבה”

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