The second most important of the two closed doors in the southern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Triple Gate. It is located to the west of the Triple Gate, exactly under the mihrab of the Al-Qibli Mosque. Thus, it constitutes an entrance to the Umayyad palaces that existed south of the mosque. Al-Aqsa to the Al-Qibli Mosque through a double corridor located at the bottom of the mosque, which was in the past a corridor for the Umayyad princes, and it has now become a prayer hall called (Old Al-Aqsa).

The double door consists of two gates, as its name indicates, leading to two galleries. And the elements of its construction confirm that the Umayyads were the ones who built it, and it is likely that this was during the time of Abd al-Malik bin Marwan and then his son al-Walid, which refutes the claims of the Jews about it, as they claim that it was built by Solomon or King Herod.

It is likely that the double door was closed by order of Sultan Al-Nasir Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi to protect the mosque and the city from invaders. for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, known as the Tower, to surround the gate from the outside, and he stopped it in the year 587 AH - 1191 AD. It enters this madrasah down by steps leading to an entrance located to the right of the al-Qibli mosque’s mihrab, to the west of the minbar. It can also be accessed through the double door from inside Al-Aqsa, specifically from inside the old Al-Aqsa prayer hall located below Al-Qibli Mosque.