Rafah Crossing Mosque
Rafah Crossing Mosque is a mosque in Egypt. Rafah Crossing Mosque is situated nearby to the government office Rafah Border Crossing, as well as near the geyser نظمي شلوف 30.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rafah Border Crossing and Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins.
Rafah Border Crossing
Border checkpoint
Photo: Gigi Ibrahim, Public domain.
The Rafah Border Crossing or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than Israel. Rafah Border Crossing is situated 230 metres north of Rafah Crossing Mosque.
Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins
Ruins
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Yasser Arafat International Airport was an airport in the Gaza Strip. It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords and opened on 24 November 1998 as Gaza International Airport. Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins is situated 1½ km east of Rafah Crossing Mosque.
Kerem Shalom border crossing
Border checkpoint
Photo: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, CC BY 2.0.
Kerem Shalom border crossing is a border crossing at the junction of two border sections: one between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and one between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It is used by trucks carrying goods from Israel or Egypt to the Gaza Strip. Kerem Shalom border crossing is situated 3 km south of Rafah Crossing Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shokat as-Sufi and Rafah.
Shokat as-Sufi
Village
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Shokat as-Sufi is a Palestinian town under Israeli occupation in the southern Gaza Strip, south of Rafah and adjacent to the inoperable Yasser Arafat International Airport.
Rafah
Town
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Rafah is a largely destroyed and depopulated city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, that serves as the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City. Rafah is situated 3 km north of Rafah Crossing Mosque.
Kerem Shalom
Village
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Kerem Shalom is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located on the triple Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 231. Kerem Shalom is situated 3 km southeast of Rafah Crossing Mosque.
Rafah Crossing Mosque
- Type: Mosque
- Address: Rafah
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.24796° or 31° 14′ 53″ northLongitude
34.26023° or 34° 15′ 37″ eastOpen location code
8G3P67X6+53OpenStreetMap ID
way 295916536OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
“Rafah Crossing Mosque” goes by many names.
- Hebrew: “מסגד מעבר רפיח”
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