Gates
Damascus Gate is actually the most beautiful gate of the Jerusalem wall; it is also the most elaborate in architectural decorative elements, as well as its size and front large square. Damascus Gate is located on the north side of the old city wall at the beginning of the sloping of the Central Valley,
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Bab Jadid is not an original gate Like Bab al-Maghariba. It was a part of the solid wall which later turned into a gate in 1889 in the era of Sultan Abdel Hamid, which is why the gate is sometimes known as Bab Hamid. Bab al-Jadid is known as such (The New Gate) due to its relatively recent construction.
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Jaffa gate is situated in the western wall of the city close to the northwestern corner of the Citadel. This gate was known as Bab Mihrab Daoud (Gate of David niche) during the early Islamic period, it was called David niche gate because it adjoins the Mamluk Castle (1329 AD) that has a mosque and within it a niche red by mistake to David, peace be upon him.
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Herod’s Gate is a small modest gate with rich decorations that represents the Ottoman architecture school. is a big hole in one of the towers in north part of the wall, most likely was opened during the Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1889 AD).
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It is located in the southern wall of the city, and it is a large door that leads to a courtyard inside the wall. The tunnel leads to Mount Zion, on which Hayy stands. It is also called the Gate of Zion, the Islamic prophet David, and Zion is a Canaanite word meaning high.
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In fact what is called today the Maghariba Gate is not actually one of the original gates of the wall, but rom a tower built in (1540/947). It expanded later to become a gate in 1953 to allow the of cars in addition to facilitate the crossing of people living near the old city. Therefore, this gate was opened in the wall and it does not have a bent entrance.
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A great closed door in the eastern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which also represents a part of the eastern wall of the Old City. Its height is 11.5 m. It is located inside a high building that descends to it with a long staircase from inside Al-Aqsa, where the hill of Jerusalem descends sharply to the east, so the wall rises and the ground level descends. .
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A small closed door in the eastern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Researchers say that it is located close to the Lions Gate, as traces of it are visible from behind the iron safes used by the Lions Gate guards in the place, but it is likely that it was located south of the Gate of Mercy, and in any case, it is possible that It has been found in history two chapters with this name. Where the gate could have been in the past, it was south of Bab Al- ...
Gate is the only open gate in the East wall of the Old City of Jerusalem, it can be reached through an ascending road from the Kidron Valley "Valley of hell" That road separates the two Islamist cemeteries, South known as the cemetery of the gate of mercy, and the North known as Youssifiyya cemetery, attributed to Yousef Bin Shadi who's well-known by Saladin.
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One of the oldest gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is located on its northern wall between Bab Al-Asbat and Faisal. It was renewed during the Ayyubid period, the time of the great Sultan King Sharaf al-Din Isa in 617 AH - 1220 AD. It is not known who built it first. And it was called (Hittah) in reference to the noble verse (And say, Htah, We will forgive you your sins...
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The last three gates in the northern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque for those coming from the east, and it is located approximately in the middle of the wall. Its renovation dates back to the Ayyubid period, specifically to the reign of the great King Jesus in the year 610 AH - 1213 AD. Its entrance is rectangular, 4 m high.
One of its names is the Gate of Honor of the Prophets, and Gate of Kin ...
The first gate of the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque from the north side, and it is a relatively small door whose entrance is rectangular. These three names are relative to the Al-Ghawanmeh neighborhood, which he arrived at, and Al-Ghawanmeh is a family that is believed to have arrived in Jerusalem with Salah El-Din Al-Ayyubi. It is also called Bab al-Khalil, perhaps this name is in relation to Khalil Ibrahim, as a ma ...
The second gate of the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque from the north side, after the Ghawanmeh Gate. It is a huge, tightly built door, its entrance is rectangular, its height is 4.5 m. It was renewed during the reign of the great King Jesus in 600-1203.
His now well-known name is attributed to the superintendent of the Two Holy Mosques, a job that was given during the Mamluk era to whoe ...
A nice, well-built door with a small, rectangular entrance. It is located in the western hallway of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, between Bab Al-Nazir and Bab Al-Qattan. It is also called Arghun Gate, which is a Turkish name meaning iron in Arabic. It was named after its restorer, the Mamluk prince Arghun al-Kamili.
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One of the most beautiful and largest gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, it is located approximately in the middle of its western wall, between Bab Al-Hadid in the north and Al-Mutahara in the south. His name is (the cotton sellers here).
Bab al-Qattanin is a gate topped with a dome that still retains its decoration, which is distinguished by many triangular decorative units called muqarnas). It ...
Its entrance is rectangular, with a height of 3.5 m. It was renewed during the reign of the Mamluk prince Alaeddin al-Basiri in the year 666 AH - 1266 AD.
This door is also called the door of the ablution, and it took its name from the place of ablution that leads to it outside Al-Aqsa. It is the only gate that does not lead to the streets and alleys of the old town, but rather to a private ro ...
It is located in the western corridor of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, between the Ashrafieh School in the north, and the Tanzi school in the south.
Many Islamic schools in Jerusalem is the path of Bab al-Silsilah. The construction of Bab al-Silsilah was renewed during the Ayyubid period in the year 600 AH - 1200 AD (i.e., during the reign of the great King Jesus). It has two entrances: the first in the ...
The gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, located in its western wall closer to the south, with an arched entrance, also known as the Gate of Al-Buraq, and the Gate of the Prophet, where it is believed that the Messenger Muhammad entered the blessed prayer on the night of the Isra and Mi'raj, as it is believed. Some historians believe that Omar Ibn Al-Khattab also after the conquest, where Ibn Katheer mentioned: ..... When Omar en ...