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The Dung Gate is a main passage for vehicles coming out of the Old City and for buses headed to the Western Wall. Names ... Pictures of the Dung Gate; Moors site
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 .
The hill descends from the Dung Gate toward the Gihon Spring and the Pool of Siloam. [19] Today, the archeological site is part of the Palestinian neighborhood and former village of Silwan, which was historically centered on the slopes of the southern part of the Mount of Olives, east of the City of David.
The Gate of Darkness (Arabic: باب العتم Bāb al-ʿAtim or -ʿAtam) is one of the three gates located on the north side. It was called "Gate of al-Dawadariya" (باب الدوادرية), after a nearby school. It is now also known as King Faisal's Gate (باب الملك فيصل). The gate is four meters tall, with an arched roof.
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Paratroopers at the Western Wall, by David Rubinger. Paratroopers at the Western Wall is an photograph taken on 7 June 1967, by David Rubinger.Shot from a low angle, the photograph depicts three Israeli paratroopers framed against the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, shortly after its capture by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War.
The Church of the Flagellation is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near St. Stephen's Gate (also called Lions' Gate). It is part a Franciscan monastery which also includes the Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross.
Warren's Gate lies about 150 feet (46 m) into the tunnel. At the northern portion of the Western Wall, remains of a water channel, which originally supplied water to the Temple Mount, were found. The exact source of the channel is unknown, though it passes through an underground pool known as the Strouthion Pool.