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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.
Both sets of gates were set into the Southern Wall of the Temple compound and gave access to the Temple Mount esplanade by means of underground vaulted ramps. [3] Both were walled up in the Middle Ages. [3] The western set is a double-arched gate (the Double Gate), and the eastern is a triple-arched gate (the Triple Gate). [3]
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. [1] It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times past, to the capital of Syria, Damascus; as such, its modern English name is the Damascus Gate, and its modern Hebrew name is Sha'ar ...
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 ...
All together, the Old City walls contain 43 surveillance towers and 11 gates, seven of which are presently open. In 1967, it was through this gate that Israeli paratroopers broke into the Old City of Jerusalem, occupied, along with the rest of East Jerusalem and the whole West Bank , from Jordan at the time.
Herod's Gate is the Christian name of the gate from the 16th or 17th century. [1] In Luke 23 (), Jesus is sent by Pontius Pilate to the tetrarch Herod Antipas, and a Christian tradition associated a somewhat-nearby house near the Church of the Flagellation with Herod Antipas's palace. [1]
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 ...
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