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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 ...
The current walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were built between 1533 and 1540 on orders of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who provided them with seven gates: six new gates were built, and the older and previously sealed Golden Gate was reopened (only to be re-sealed again after a few years). The seven gates at the time of Suleiman ...
EnglishHebrewArabicAlternative NamesSha'ar HaRahamim שער הרחמים "Gate Of ...Bab al-Dhahabi / al-Zahabi, "Golden Gate" ...A double gate, last sealed in 1541. In ...Sha'ar Shkhem שער שכם "Nablus ...Bab al-Amoud باب العمودSha'ar Damesek, Nablus Gate, Gate of the ...Sha'ar HaPerachim שער הפרחים "Gate Of The ...Bab al-Sahira باب الساهرةSha'ar Hordos, Flower Gate, Sheep GateSha'ar HaAshpot שער האשפות "Gate Of ...Bab al-Maghariba باب المغاربةGate of Silwan, Sha'ar HaMugrabimThe Old City of Jerusalem, which covers about 0.9 square miles, is shaped like a quadrilateral with sides extending for 3,000 feet (900 meters). 1 The gates are the portals or entry passages into the walled space. The number of gates has varied over time. During the Crusader kingdom (1099–1291), there were four gates, one on each side.
About the project. Damascus Gate, also called Nablus Gate and the Gate of the Pillar, is the largest and most impressive of the entrances into the Old City, and the most heavily used entrance into the Muslim Quarter. The gate opens onto Nablus Road, which leads to the city of Nablus (Neopolis to the Romans), and, eventually to Damascus.
The most architecturally impressive of the Ottoman Old City gates, Damascus Gate is the heart of Arab Jerusalem, funneling Arab Jerusalemites into the mercantile bustle of the Muslim Quarter souk and back out again. Like most of the Old City's gates, it goes under multiple names; the English name refers to its position at the head of the old ...
Jerusalem, Israel. Damascus Gate is one of the main entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side where the highway leads out to Nablus, and from there, in times past, to the capital of Syria, Damascus. In its current form, the gate was built in 1537 under the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent ...
