Cemeteries & Shrines
It is located east of the wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and extends from the gate of the tribes to the southeast corner of the city wall.
They are also called - The name of the Bab al-Asbat cemetery, where a number of mujahideen who participated in the Umayyad and Salafi conquests were buried, where the graves of the companions Obadah Ibn al-Samit and Shaddad Ibn AWS, may Allah be pleased wit ...
It is located north of the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, and stretches from Bab al-Asbat to the site of the former Friday market.It is believed that the one who created it was Prince qansuh Al-yahyawi, Kafel Al-Diyar Al-Shamiya in 1467 ad).In the Jordanian era, a fence was erected on both sides of the street south and East, and the cemetery reconstruction committee of the Jerusalem Islamic Endowments Department paved its corridors in 20 ...
The Bab Al-Sahra cemetery (Baqi Al-Mujahideen) is located north of the Old City wall, and it used to extend to Zahra Street, the Rashidiya school, and the Palestinian Museum. It was also called the" cemetery of the Mujahideen " after the mujahideen who participated in the Salafi conquest and were martyred and buried there, in addition to many men of the Ayyubid state. It was restored by the cemetery reconstruction committee of th ...
When the Crusaders occupied Jerusalem, they committed a heinous massacre, where they killed large numbers of children, women and men, they were buried in the cemetery and when Sultan Saladin liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he ordered the burial of those who were martyred in battles with the Crusaders in the cemetery itself, which includes the remains of a large number of scientists, jurists, writers, notables and rulers, ...
It is located in the southernmost eastern corner of Al-Ghazali Square, to the left of the interior of the Al-Aqsa gate of the tribes, and adjacent to it, and is considered one of the small historical cemeteries in the city, as it has an area of (40 M٢), and includes inside it three historical graves belonging to the founder of the ikhshidid state in Egypt : Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad taghaj Al-ikhshid, deceased in ( 334 ah), and the g ...
Obadah Ibn al-Samit witnessed the first and second obstacle from the companions sent by Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him . After the conquest of the Levant to teach the people, the Quran, the first of the Wali of the district of Palestine, and the Wali of the district of Jerusalem about 17 years ago, died in 34 Ah, and was buried in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery near the wall of the Al-Aqsa eastern mosque.
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