Zion Square
Zion Square is a public square in Jerusalem, located at the intersection of Jaffa Road, Ben Yehuda Street, Herbert Samuel Street, and Yoel Moshe Salomon Street.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ToastieIL, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ticho House and Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Ticho House
Museum
Photo: Talmoryair, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ticho House is a historical home in Jerusalem, now a memorial house administered as part of the Israel Museum and also hosting temporary exhibitions, which also houses an Italian café. Ticho House is situated 170 metres north of Zion Square.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
Friends of Zion Museum
Museum
Photo: Mbkv717, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Friends of Zion Museum is a museum in the historic Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood of downtown Jerusalem. The museum celebrates Christian Zionists and their contribution to Israel. It is also the site of the Indigenous People Embassy in Jerusalem. Friends of Zion Museum is situated 210 metres south of Zion Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Jerusalem and Nahalat Shiva.
West Jerusalem
Photo: Ting Chen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Jerusalem represents the modern commercial heart of the city, which was the focus for development in the capital from the time of Israeli independence in 1948 to the reunification of the city with the Six Day War in 1967.
Nahalat Shiva
Neighborhood
Nahalat Shiv'a is a former courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem. It was the third Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1860s.
Russian Compound
Suburb
The Russian Compound is one of the oldest districts in central Jerusalem, featuring a large Russian Orthodox church, the Russian-owned Sergei's Courtyard and the premises of the Russian Consulate General in Jerusalem, as well as the site of former pilgrim hostels, some of which are used as Israeli government buildings, and one of which hosts the Museum of Underground Prisoners.
Zion Square
- Type: Square
- Description: public square in Jerusalem
- Categories: pedestrian zone and locality
- Location: Jerusalem District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.78196° or 31° 46′ 55″ northLongitude
35.2196° or 35° 13′ 11″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6J9+QROpenStreetMap ID
way 44202035OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianOpenStreetMap feature
place=squareWikidata ID
Q8072556
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Zion Square” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساحة صهيون”
- Arabic: “ميدان صهيون”
- Basque: “Sion plaza”
- Bengali: “সিয়োন চত্বর”
- Chinese: “锡安广场”
- Czech: “Sijónské náměstí”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان صهيون”
- Esperanto: “Placo Ciono”
- Finnish: “Siionin aukio”
- French: “place de Sion”
- French: “Place de Sion”
- German: “Zionplatz”
- Hebrew: “ההפגנה נגד הסכם השילומים”
- Hebrew: “הפגנת הימין בכיכר ציון נגד יצחק רבין והסכם אוסלו ב‘”
- Hebrew: “כיכר ציון”
- Japanese: “シオン広場”
- Persian: “میدان صهیون”
- Portuguese: “Praça Sião”
- Spanish: “Plaza Sion”
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