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The New Gate (Arabic: باب الجديد Bāb ij-Jdïd) (Hebrew: השער החדש HaSha'ar HeChadash) [2] is the newest of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.It was built in 1889 by the Ottomans under the directorship of the French consul and Franciscan brotherhood monkship order to provide direct access between the Christian Quarter and the new neighborhoods then going up outside the ...
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 ...
During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem; since then, the entire city has been under Israeli control. Israel unilaterally asserted in its 1980 Jerusalem Law that the whole of Jerusalem was Israel's capital. [10] In international law, East Jerusalem is defined as territory occupied by Israel.
The Co-Cathedral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, [1] also known as the Holy Name of Jesus Co-Cathedral, is the co-cathedral, or technical cathedra of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It is located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, about halfway between the New Gate and the Jaffa Gate, within the Old City walls.
The Moors' Gate, also known as Magharibah Gate [24] [25] (Arabic: باب المغاربة Bāb al-Maghāriba; Hebrew: Shaar HaMughrabim), is the southernmost gate on the western flank of the compound, built directly over the Herodian-period gate known as the Gate of the Prophet (also known as Barclay's Gate, named for James Turner Barclay).
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Two year later the chapel was able to be repaired and reconsecrated and pilgrims began to arrive. Notre Dame however remained on the Israeli side of Jerusalem, and the street that separated Notre Dame from the Old City was the border with Jordan (the New Gate was blocked by a wall). Because of this, the guest house suddenly lost all interest ...
The next phase of BNA redevelopment, called New Horizon, includes the expansion of concourses D and A to add more gates, a new cargo and freight shipping facility and terminal roadway improvements ...