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  2. Old City of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The walls stretch for approximately 4.5 km (2.8 miles), and rise to a height of between 5 and 15 metres (16.4–49 ft), with a thickness of 3 metres (10 feet) at the base of the wall. [3] Altogether, the Old City walls contain 35 towers, of which 15 are concentrated in the more exposed northern wall. [3]

  3. Walls of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The 16th century walls of Jerusalem, with the Jerusalem Citadel minaret. The Walls of Jerusalem (Hebrew: חומות ירושלים, Arabic: أسوار القدس) surround the Old City of Jerusalem (approx. 1 km 2). In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the ruined city walls to be ...

  4. Mughrabi Quarter - Wikipedia

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    The Mughrabi Quarter, [a] also known as the Maghrebi Quarter, was a neighbourhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, established in the late 12th century. It bordered the western wall of the Temple Mount on the east, the Old City walls on the south (including the Dung Gate) and the Jewish Quarter to the west.

  5. Portals to history and conflict: the gates of Jerusalem's Old ...

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    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 ...

  6. Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Herodian Quarter - Wikipedia

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    The Herodian Quarter – Wohl Archaeological Museum is an underground archaeological site and museum situated in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. [1] It exhibits lavish residencies that reflect the high standard of living among the affluent inhabitants of Jerusalem's Upper City during the late Second Temple Period and up until the city's destruction in 70 CE.

  8. Western Wall - Wikipedia

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    For example, in November 2010, the Obama administration "strongly condemned a Palestinian official's claim that the Western Wall in the Old City has no religious significance for Jews and is actually Muslim property." The U.S. State Department noted that the United States rejects such a claim as "factually incorrect, insensitive and highly ...

  9. Batei Mahse - Wikipedia

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    The Synagogue is in the Batei Mahse of the Old City near the Cotel, every Shabbat the masses come from the Western Wall to this synagogue to read the torah, where the first minyan prays. Every day there is a Talmud and Ein Yaakov lesson between Mincha and Maariv. After Maariv prayers, all the children of the Old City gather for study.