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'Gate of Mercy' [1] [2]; Arabic: باب الذهبي, romanized: Bab al-Dhahabi [3] or al-Zahabi [4], lit. 'Golden Gate') is the only eastern gate of the Temple Mount, and one of only two Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem that used to offer access into the city from the East side.
The Golden Gate (Arabic: باب الرحمة, romanized: Bāb al-Raḥma, lit. 'Mercy Gate'; Hebrew: Sha'ar Harachamim, "Gate of Mercy"), located on the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, was probably built in the 520s CE, as part of Justinian I's building program in Jerusalem, on top of the ruins
This article lists the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The gates are visible on most old maps of Jerusalem over the last 1,500 years. During different periods, the city walls followed different outlines and had a varying number of gates. During the era of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291), Jerusalem had four gates, one on each ...
Gate of Mercy may refer to: Gate of Mercy Synagogue; Golden Gate (Jerusalem) This page was last edited on 28 ...
House number 8 was built at the initiative of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia as a rental apartment building, with the income intended to finance the church and Ethiopian activities in Jerusalem. In 1907, a home for poor Jewish girls was established in the building, the first of its kind in Jerusalem.
Model of the pools during the Second Temple Period (Israel Museum). The Pool of Bethesda is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in Jerusalem, described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes.
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The western set is a double-arched gate (the Double Gate), and the eastern is a triple-arched gate (the Triple Gate). [3] There still are a few Herodian architectural elements visible outside and inside the gates, while most everything else of what we see today is later, Muslim-period work.