Holy places of Judaism Land of Israel · Europe · diaspora
A map of the major Jewish holy sites: the Kotel, Machpela, Rachel's Tomb, Meron and Safed, the Hasidic ohels of Ukraine and the oldest synagogues of Europe.
◉ Total shrines on the map: 23· routes 3
◍ All · 23 ◇ Major shrines · 4 ◆ Synagogues · 7 † Tombs of the righteous · 8 ▤ Memory & learning · 3 ▲ Mountains & desert · 1
Shrines & synagogues · 23 ◇ Major shrines
Western Wall (Kotel)
Old City, Jewish Quarter · 19 р. до н.е.
The holiest place of Jewish prayer: the surviving retaining wall of the Second Temple Mount.
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Temple Mount
Site of the First and Second Temples, Mount Moriah.
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Mount of Olives cemetery
The oldest continuously used Jewish cemetery in the world.
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Yad Vashem
The world Holocaust remembrance centre.
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Cave of the Patriarchs
The second holiest site in Judaism: tombs of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs.
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Rachel's Tomb
The third holiest Jewish site: the tomb of the Matriarch Rachel.
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Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue
Heart of kabbalistic Safed, where the Ari greeted Shabbat.
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Meron · Tomb of Rashbi
Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar; Israel's largest pilgrimage on Lag BaOmer.
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Tomb of Maimonides
Tiberias: resting place of Maimonides.
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Masada
Fortress of the last defenders of Judea above the Dead Sea.
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Beit She'arim
Necropolis of the Sanhedrin and tomb of Judah the Prince.
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Uman · Tomb of Rebbe Nachman
Europe's largest Jewish pilgrimage: Rosh Hashanah in Uman.
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Medzhybizh · Baal Shem Tov
Cradle of Hasidism: the ohel of the Baal Shem Tov.
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Berdychiv · Levi Yitzchak
Tomb of Levi Yitzchak, the defender of Israel.
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Leżajsk · Rebbe Elimelech
Major Hasidic pilgrimage in Poland.
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Remuh Synagogue, Kraków
Kraków's Kazimierz: synagogue and tomb of Rabbi Moses Isserles.
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Old-New Synagogue, Prague
Europe's oldest active synagogue, home of the Maharal's legend.
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Rashi Synagogue, Worms
Medieval Rhineland Jewish learning centre.
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Tomb of the Vilna Gaon
Resting place of the Vilna Gaon.
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El Ghriba, Djerba
Africa's oldest synagogue with an annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage.
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Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam
The 1675 Esnoga, still lit by candles.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Memorial of the largest Nazi death camp.
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Touro Synagogue, Newport
Oldest synagogue in the USA.
Tap to show on the map ◇ Pilgrim routes· 3 ▥ 7 days
Three shrines of the Land of Israel
Kotel, Rachel's Tomb, Machpela, Meron and Safed.
◉ Western Wall (Kotel) ◉ Rachel's Tomb ◉ Cave of the Patriarchs ◉ Meron · Tomb of Rashbi ◉ Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue
† 5 days
Hasidic trail in Ukraine
Medzhybizh, Berdychiv, Uman.
◉ Medzhybizh · Baal Shem Tov ◉ Berdychiv · Levi Yitzchak ◉ Uman · Tomb of Rebbe Nachman
▤ 6 days
Europe: memory and learning
Worms, Prague, Kraków, Auschwitz, Vilnius.
◉ Rashi Synagogue, Worms ◉ Old-New Synagogue, Prague ◉ Remuh Synagogue, Kraków ◉ Auschwitz-Birkenau ◉ Tomb of the Vilna Gaon
