One of the closed doors of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is located near the middle of the southern wall, which unites with the Jerusalem wall in this area. Traces of this door are still visible from the outside. It consists of three adjacent entrances overlooking the The Emirate House and the Umayyad palaces located south of Al-Aqsa, and lead to the western wall of the Marwani Chapel, which is located inside the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque

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It was probably built by the Umayyads, during the reign of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, to reach this chapel, which is located under the southeastern square of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was known in the past as the eastern settlement, and the door remained open even at the time of the Crusaders who used the settlement. A stable for horses, until Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi came and cleaned and restored it and closed the triple gate to protect the city and the mosque from invasion.

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After the Zionist occupation of Jerusalem in 1967 AD, and following the failure of the Jewish excavations that took place in the Umayyad palaces area south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque to prove any right for the Jews, they claimed that the Triple Gate (as well as the Double Gate) is one of the gates of their alleged temple And they called them “Bab Khaldeh”, and they claimed that they had discovered the remains of (staircases) from the era of the second temple standing to them, and they took that as an excuse to build a stone staircase along part of the southern wall of Al-Aqsa, specifically in the triple and double gates. Al-Marwani and the old Al-Aqsa Chapel and transforming them into a Jewish synagogue to find a footing for the Jews inside the blessed Al-Aqsa, so the Al-Aqsa Foundation for the Reconstruction of Islamic Holy Sites and the Jerusalem Islamic Heritage Committee rushed to restore the chapels in cooperation with the Islamic Endowments Department, especially the Al-Marwani Chapel, which is more spacious and reopened the giant northern gates. With this chapel, which is located inside Al-Aqsa, and thus they thwarted part of this scheme, thank God.

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