Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium
The Abbasiyyin Stadium is a multi-use all-seater stadium in Damascus, Syria, that is currently out of use. It mostly hosted football matches and served as the home venue of the Syrian national team in the past.- Type: Stadium
- Description: stadium
- Also known as: “Abbasiyyin Stadium”, “Al Abbassiyyine Stadium”, and “Al−Abbasiyyin Stadium”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Umayyad Mosque and Bab Touma.
Umayyad Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. Umayyad Mosque is situated 2 km southwest of Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium.
Bab Touma
City gate
Photo: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bab Tuma is a neighborhood located in the old city of Damascus in Syria. It is one of the seven gates of Damascus, a geographic landmark of Christianity. Bab Touma is situated 1 km southwest of Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium.
Holy Cross
Church
Photo: Aziz1005, Public domain.
Holy Cross is a church, which is situated 640 metres south of Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jobar and Damascus.
Jobar
Village
Jobar also Jawbar, Jober or Joubar, is a village on the outskirts of Damascus northeast of the old city walls. It contains the most venerated site for Syrian Jews, the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue, named for the biblical prophet Elijah, and has been a place of Jewish pilgrimage for many centuries.
Damascus
Photo: علي الصمادي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. A city of immense historical importance, Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.
Abu Jarash
Quarter
Abu Jarash is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census. In the 1936 French Mandate census, Abu Jarash had a population of 9,600, all Muslims.
Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium
- Categories: recreation area, football, sports location, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Damascus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.52288° or 33° 31′ 22″ northLongitude
36.32002° or 36° 19′ 12″ eastOpen location code
8G5RG8FC+52OpenStreetMap ID
way 564473106OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=stadiumOpenStreetMap feature
sport=soccerWikidata ID
Q306006
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Al ‘Abbassiyeen Stadium” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ستاد العباسيين”
- Arabic: “ملعب العباسيين”
- Chinese: “阿巴薩爾體育場”
- Dutch: “Abbasiyyinstadion”
- French: “Stade Al Abbasyïne”
- French: “stade des Abbassides”
- French: “Stade des Abbassides”
- German: “Abbasiden-Stadion”
- Greek: “Στάδιο Αμπασιγίν”
- Japanese: “アッバーシーン・スタジアム”
- Japanese: “アッバーシン・スタジアム”
- Japanese: “アッバシーン・スタジアム”
- Korean: “아바시인 경기장”
- Korean: “압바시인 스타디움”
- Persian: “ورزشگاه عباسیان”
- Persian: “ورزشگاه عباسیون”
- Polish: “Stadion Abbasijjin”
- Portuguese: “Estádio Abbasiyyin”
- Russian: “Аббасийин”
- Slovenian: “stadion Abasidov”
- Spanish: “Estadio Abbasiyyin”
- Swedish: “Abbasiyyinstadion”
- Turkish: “Abbâsîler Stadyumu”
- Turkish: “Abbasiyyin Stadyumu”
- Vietnamese: “Sân vận động Abbasiyyin”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Abbassiyeen Police Station and مشفى العباسيين.
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