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A song. His foundation is on holy mountains, The LORD loves the gates of Zion text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Psalm 87 – Citizens of Zion text and detailed commentary, enduringword.com; Psalm 87:1 introduction and text, biblestudytools.com; Psalm 87 / Refrain: The Lord has chosen Zion for himself.
Touro Synagogue traces its origins back to Shanarai-Chasset (Congregation Gates of Mercy), which was founded in New Orleans in 1828. [2] [30] Shaare Tefilah (Gates of Prayer) in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the oldest surviving synagogue building in the state. [5]
Congregation Shaare Zion, Gravesend; Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Homecrest; Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, Kensington; Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, Manhattan Beach; B'nai Yosef Synagogue, Mapleton; East Midwood Jewish Center, Midwood; Kingsway Jewish Center, Midwood; Sephardic Center of Mill Basin, Mill Basin; Congregation Beth Elohim, Park Slope
The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east. [1] In the early 20th century the Jewish population of the quarter reached 19,000. [2]
The New Jerusalem gates may bear some relation to the gates mentioned in Enoch, Chapters 33–35, where the prophet Enoch reports that from each of the four "heavenly gates – opening in heaven – three (new gates) were seen distinctly separating (off, as if) the extremities of the whole earth" [were pulling apart each of the four gates into ...
Zion Gate was built in July 1540, west of the location of the medieval gate, which was a direct continuation of the Street of the Jews (also known as the Cardo).Six sentry towers were erected in the southern segment of the wall, four of them situated in the Mount Zion section.
The seven gates at the time of Suleiman were, clockwise and by their current name: the Damascus Gate; Herod's Gate; Lions' Gate; Golden Gate; Dung Gate; Zion Gate; and Jaffa Gate. With the re-sealing of the Golden Gate by Suleiman, the number of operational gates was only brought back to seven in 1887, with the addition of the New Gate.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Shiloh was one of the main centers of Israelite worship during the pre-monarchic period, before the First Temple in Jerusalem was built. After the Israelite conquest of Canaan , the Tabernacle was moved to Shiloh, and remained there during the period of the biblical judges .