Boazum (Dutch: Bozum[3]) is a Frisian village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands with an approximate population of 397 in January 2017.

[4] The Boazum church is an example of romanesque twelfth-century architecture and possesses an Ottonian fresco portraying a beardless Christ.

[5] The village was first mentioned in 1260 as Bosingum, and "settlement of the people of Bose (person)".

[5] A famous Boazumer (although mainly by proxy) was the reverend Eelco Alta (1723-1798), whose treatise Philosophical Considerations concerning the Conjunction of the Planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Moon.

To be happening on the Eighth of May 1774, and about the Possible and Likely Astronomical and Physical Consequences of this Conjunction[9] from 1774 was long said to have motivated Eise Eisinga to build his famous planetarium.