British Consulate
The British Consulate General in Jerusalem is the British diplomatic representation in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The consulate is located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Government office
- Description: British consulate
- Also known as: “British Consulate General Jerusalem”, “British consulate in Jerusalem”, “British Consulate-General Jerusalem”, “British consulate, Jerusalem”, and “Consulate General of the United Kingdom, Jerusalem”
- Address: 15 רג’ב נשאשבי, Jerusalem, 97200
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dome of the Rock and St. John.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. 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. Dome of the Rock is situated 1½ km south of British Consulate.
St. John
Hospital
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is a charitable foundation which operates an ophthalmic hospital in Jerusalem – one of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network – and satellite eye care clinics and hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. St. John is situated 270 metres northwest of British Consulate.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa Mosque is situated 2 km south of British Consulate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheikh Jarrah and Kiryat Menachem Begin.
Sheikh Jarrah
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sheikh Jarrah is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.
Kiryat Menachem Begin
Neighborhood
Kiryat Menachem Begin, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in East Jerusalem located between Sheikh Jarrah in the north, adjacent to Mount Scopus in the east and Ammunition Hill in the west.
Wadi al-Joz
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wadi al-Joz, also Wadi Joz, is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, located at the head of the Kidron Valley, north of the Old City of Jerusalem.
British Consulate
- Categories: consulate general, office, and government building
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.79334° or 31° 47′ 36″ northLongitude
35.23299° or 35° 13′ 59″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6VM+85OpenStreetMap ID
way 56063714OpenStreetMap feature
office=diplomaticOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q59290346
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“British Consulate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القنصلية البريطانية العامة في القدس”
- French: “consulat général du Royaume-Uni à Jérusalem”
- French: “Consulat général du Royaume-Uni à Jérusalem”
- German: “Generalkonsulat des Vereinten Königreiches Großbritannien und Nordirland”
- Hebrew: “הקונסוליה הבריטית בירושלים”
- Hebrew: “קונסוליה הכללית של הממלכה המאוחדת של בריטניה הגדולה וצפון אירלנד”
- Romanian: “Consulatul General al Regatului Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei de Nord”
- Turkish: “Birleşik Krallık’ın Kudüs Başkonsolosluğu”
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