Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Heliopolis Today?

Heliopolis is identified with Ain Shams. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs5

High confidence

Modern identification

Ain Shams - modern identification under review

Coordinates30.1294, 31.3075
Kindsettlement
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Gen 41:45Gen 41:50Gen 46:20Jer 43:13Ezek 30:17

Why this place is in the atlas

Heliopolis is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 5 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: acd9137, urlSlug: heliopolis, friendlyId: Heliopolis OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 30.129444, longitude: 31.3075, precision: approximate OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Gen 41:45, Gen 41:50, Gen 46:20, Jer 43:13 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High