There is no definitive answer to this question as the concept of the center of the Earth is subjective and varies across cultures and beliefs. Jerusalem, being a city with significant religious and historical importance to various groups, may be considered the center of the Earth in a symbolic or spiritual sense for some people.
No, of course not. The Kaaba is about 6000 km from the center of the Earth.If it makes you feel any better, the Kaaba is directly above the center of the Earth. (Of course, so are Golgotha, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem... and, for that matter, Hollywood and New York City.)
As you get farther from the center of Earth, your weight willDECREASE
No, the distance from the Earth's surface to the center of the Earth is approximately 6,371 kilometers.
The distance from the surface of the Earth to its center is approximately 6,371 kilometers.
The average distance from the surface of the Earth to the center is about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles).
Jerusalem is not the center but it is in the neighborhood. Ankara, Turkey is the nearest city to the geographic center of the world. This is according to Henry Morris, PhD, of the Institute for Creation Research. You can read the article at their website.
Strange as it may seem . . . If you drove a pencil from Jerusalem down through the center of the earth and out the other side, the city closest to the point on the earth directly opposite Jerusalem is Papeete, Tahiti. The point is actually out in the South Pacific Ocean, and Papeete is about 1,000 miles to the north-northwest.
Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center was created in 1989.
Jerusalem is in the dead center of Israel.
Jerusalem Center of the World - 2009 was released on: USA: 1 April 2009
6 miles, or 9.6 kilometres, from the center of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem itself is only a city. As such, it is fartoo small for countries to exist within it.
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There are no historical evidence that Jerusalem was ever the center of Christianity. Most activities of the early Christians happen in the country of St. Paul, in Turkey.
Jerusalem is the center of the modern Jewish and ancient homeland.
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The pre-modern maps of the world, particularly the one in which the Holy Land sits in the center like the eye of a daisy, surrounded by three petals marked Europe, Asia and Africa. Jerusalem was the navel of the world! So practically in the center of the world-is Israel.