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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.
Gate of Yehoshafat, St. Stephen's Gate, Gate of the Tribes, St. Mary's Gate (باب ستي مريم, Bab Sittna Maryam) 1538–39 North part of eastern wall Open Jaffa Gate: Sha'ar Yafo שער יפו Bab al-Khalil باب الخليل The Gate of David's Prayer Shrine, Porta Davidi. 1530–40 Middle of western wall Open Zion Gate: Sha'ar Tzion
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 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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Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn, [a] LXX Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel , one of the books of the Tanakh dated to approximately the mid-6th century BCE.
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