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Zion Gate (Hebrew: שער ציון, Sha'ar Zion, Arabic: باب صهيون, Bab Sahyun), also known in Arabic as Bab Harat al-Yahud ("Jewish Quarter Gate") [1] or Bab an-Nabi Dawud ("Prophet David Gate"), is one of the seven historic Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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.
On May 13, 1948, as the British Army left Jerusalem, a major from the Suffolk Regiment presented Weingarten with the key for the Zion Gate. [10] [11] With the British soldiers' departure, Haganah forces began occupying parts of the Armenian Quarter. That night, after a long meeting with the Armenian Patriarch, Guregh II Israelian, Weingarten ...
Jews, Muslims and Christians pass daily through the gates of Jerusalem's Old City, on their way to and from prayers or simply to go about their everyday business in one of the most politically ...
The Armenian Quarter is located in the southwestern corner of Jerusalem's Old City. [5] The quarter can be accessed through the Zion Gate and Jaffa Gate. [6] According to a 2007 study published by the International Peace and Cooperation Center, the quarter occupies an area of 0.126 km 2 (126 dunam), which is 14% of the Old City's total. [7]
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 sealed historic gates comprise four that are at least partially preserved (the double Golden Gate in the eastern wall, and the Single, Triple, and Double Gates in the southern wall), with several other gates discovered by archaeologists of which only traces remain (the Gate of the Essenes on Mount Zion, the gate of Herod's royal palace ...
A video obtained by CNN shows two young ultra-Orthodox men spitting at, swearing at and insulting a Christian priest near the Zion Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday evening.