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‘Irāq Būrīn

Iraq Burin is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine.

‘Irāq Būrīn
‘Irāq Būrīn · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Iraq Burin is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around ‘Irāq Būrīn

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mount Gerizim

    Mount Gerizim is one of two mountains near the Palestinian city of Nablus and the biblical city of Shechem, located in the north of Palestine's West Bank. It forms the southern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the northern side being formed by Mount Ebal.

    3.2 km · mountain in Judea and Samaria Area, Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    An-Najah National University

    An-Najah National University is a non-governmental public university governed by a board of trustees in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties.

    2.2 km · University in State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Great Mosque of Nablus

    The Great Mosque of Nablus is the oldest and largest mosque in the city of Nablus, in the State of Palestine. It was originally built as a Byzantine church and was converted into a mosque during the early Islamic era.

    3.4 km · mosque in Palestine · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    An-Nasr Mosque

    An-Nasr Mosque is a mosque located in Nablus, Palestine. It is situated in the central square of the Old City of Nablus and is donned as the "symbol of Nablus".

    2.9 km · Mosque in Nablus, Palestine · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Al-Khadra Mosque

    The Al-Khadra Mosque also known as Hizn Sidna Yaq'ub Mosque, is a mosque situated on the lower slopes of Mount Gerizim in the southwestern quarter of the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank of the State of Palestine.

    3.2 km · mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Nablus Football Stadium

    The Nablus Football Stadium is a football stadium in Nablus, Palestine. It has a capacity of 30,000.

    2.9 km · football stadium in Nablus, Palestine · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hanbali Mosque, Nablus

    The Hanbali Mosque is a mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. The mosque is situated off Jama'a Kabir Street, south of Martyr's Square, and west of the Great Mosque of Nablus.

    3 km · mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Manara Clock Tower

    The Manara Clock Tower or al-Manura clock tower is a clock tower located in the middle of the central square in the Old City of Nablus next to the An-Nasr Mosque in the Palestine. Five stories high, it was erected in 1906 on the orders of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to celebrate 30 years of his reign.

    2.9 km · Clock tower in Nablus, West Bank · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mount Gerizim Temple

    The Mount Gerizim Temple was an ancient Samaritan center of worship located on Mount Gerizim originally constructed in the mid-5th century BCE, reconstructed in the early 2nd century BCE, and destroyed later in that same century. The temple is attested in several historical sources, both literary and epigraphical, including references in 2 Maccabees from the second century BCE and two Greek inscriptions found on the island of Delos, also dating to the same period, which mention a sanctuary on the mountain.

    3.2 km · samaritan temple (5th century–c. 110 BCE) · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Toukan Palace

    Touqan Palace is a historic building in the city of Nablus, West Bank, Palestine with more than one hundred rooms. The building is located on the western side of the Al-Beik Mosque.

    2.8 km · historical building in Nablus · Wikipedia

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Getting to ‘Irāq Būrīn

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 39 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 75 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 89 km
  • Amman → ‘Irāq Būrīn
    72 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · JD5–7
  • Damascus → ‘Irāq Būrīn
    176 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · $22–31
  • Beirut → ‘Irāq Būrīn
    190 km · quickest by road, 6h 24m · $31–42
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for ‘Irāq Būrīn

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for ‘Irāq Būrīn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Ben Gurion it is cheapest to take a "sherut" (shared taxi) to the bus station on Nablus Road by Damascus Gate, and then follow the directions above to Nablus.
  • Go nextShared minibus taxis (sherut/servees) leaving Nablus tend to congregate around the center of town and along the two-sided Al-Gazalah (Al-Hadadeen) Street going southeast out of town.
  • Go nextTo get there by hitchhiking, take a sherut to Tubas (₪7.50) and from there hitchhike east through Tayasir and Aqabah to the highway #578 or #90, and then north past the Israeli checkpoint.

From Wikivoyage: Nablus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    210 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    680 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,044 km

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Around it

Next door to ‘Irāq Būrīn

‘Irāq Būrīn is 45 km from Tel Aviv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nabluscity in the West Bank, State of Palestine3.1 km
  • Har BrakhaIsraeli settlement in Samaria2.7 km
  • Kiryat LuzaIsraelite Samaritan village near Nablus2.9 km
  • YitzharIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.7 km
  • Burinmunicipality in Nablus2.2 km
  • Asira al-Qibliyamunicipality in Nablus3.4 km