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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 .
Mount Zion was a designated no-man's land between Israel and Jordan. [15] Mount Zion was the closest accessible site to the ancient Jewish Temple. Until East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, Israelis would climb to the rooftop of David's Tomb to pray. [16]
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 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 ...
Zion is located in southwestern Utah and the most visited of the state's Mighty Five national parks. The other four parks are Arches , Bryce Canyon , Canyonlands and Capitol Reef .
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]
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