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Mount Zion

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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: hill in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Zion”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gehenna and Cenacle.

Meadow
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or Gehinnom is a Biblical toponym that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology.

Church
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The , also known as the Upper Room, is a room in in , just outside the Old City walls, traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper, the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus held with the apostles.

Synagogue
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David's Tomb is a site that, according to an early medieval tradition, is associated with the burial of the biblical king David. During the Ottoman and British Mandate periods, Maqam Al-Nabi Daoud served one of Jerusalem prime Islamic shrines.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yemin Moshe and Armenian Quarter.

Neighborhood
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is a historic neighborhood in , overlooking the Old City.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the walled Old City of . Located in the southwestern corner of the Old City, it can be accessed through the and .

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.

Mount Zion

Latitude
31.77073° or 31° 46′ 15″ north
Longitude
35.22902° or 35° 13′ 45″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6CH+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 372422144
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q332444
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Mount Zion” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل صهيون”
  • Armenian: “Սիոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sion dağı”
  • Basque: “Sion Mendia”
  • Basque: “Sion”
  • Breton: “Menez Sion”
  • Bulgarian: “Цион”
  • Catalan: “Mont Sió”
  • Catalan: “Mont Sion”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Zion”
  • Central Bikol: “Bukid Sion”
  • Chinese: “郇山”
  • Chinese: “錫安山”
  • Chinese: “锡安山”
  • Chuvash: “Сион”
  • Croatian: “Cion (planina)”
  • Croatian: “Cion”
  • Czech: “Sijón”
  • Danish: “Zion-bjerget”
  • Danish: “Zionbjerget”
  • Danish: “Zions bjerg”
  • Dutch: “Berg Sion”
  • Dutch: “Berg Zion”
  • Dutch: “Mount Zion”
  • Dutch: “Sion”
  • Dutch: “Sionsberg”
  • Dutch: “Zion”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل صهيون”
  • Finnish: “Siioninvuori”
  • French: “mont Sion”
  • French: “Mont Sion”
  • French: “Sion”
  • Galician: “Monte Sión”
  • Georgian: “სიონის მთა”
  • German: “Berg Zion”
  • German: “Zionsberg”
  • Greek: “Όρος Σιών”
  • Hebrew: “הר ציון”
  • Hungarian: “Sion-hegy”
  • Ido: “Monto Cion”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Sion”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Shíón”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Zion”
  • Italian: “Monte Sion”
  • Italian: “Sion”
  • Japanese: “シオンの山”
  • Khmer: “ភ្នំស៊ីយ៉ូន”
  • Korean: “시온산”
  • Ladino: “Monte Sion”
  • Latin: “Sion”
  • Lithuanian: “Sionas”
  • Macedonian: “Сионска Гора”
  • Malagasy: “Ziôna”
  • Malay: “Gunung Sahyun”
  • Mazanderani: “مونته سیاو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sionfjellet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sionfjellet”
  • Norwegian: “Sionfjellet”
  • Persian: “کوه صهیون”
  • Polish: “Syjon”
  • Polish: “Wzgórze Syjon”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Sião”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Sion”
  • Russian: “гора Сион”
  • Russian: “Сион (гора)”
  • Russian: “Сион”
  • Serbian: “Sionska gora”
  • Serbian: “Сионска гора”
  • Slovenian: “Sion”
  • Slovenian: “Zion”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صهیون داغی”
  • Spanish: “Monte de Sion”
  • Spanish: “Monte Sion”
  • Spanish: “Monte Sión”
  • Swedish: “Sion”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok Sion”
  • Tamil: “சீயோன் மலை”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาศิโยน”
  • Turkish: “Siyon Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Zion Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіон”
  • Urdu: “صہیون پہاڑی”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Sion”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Zion”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Sion”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Seion”
  • Welsh: “Seion”
  • Western Panjabi: “صیہون پعاڑ”
  • Western Panjabi: “صیہون پہاڑ”
  • Yiddish: “הר ציון”

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Localities in the Area

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