Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Three adjacent gates in the southern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque wall 50 meters from the single gate and 80 meters from the double gate.
Reason for the name
It was built to reach the prayer hall located under the southeastern arena of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was Formerly known as the Eastern Settlement, named Al-Thulathi gate because it consists of three adjacent gates.
Builder
The Umayyads (Abdul Malik bin Marwan).
These gates served the Islamic neighborhoods and are located south of the mosque, where the gates were 3 times long (similar to the corridors of the double gate) under the level of the mosque leads to its yards.
Gate’s closing
*There is a common saying that the gate closed after the liberation of Salahaddin, and circulated the word on the other closed gates, but there is no historical evidence to support this statement.
Proof of inaccuracy
*In the conversation of Ibn al-Omari about the Marwani Prayer Hall in 755 AH-1354M mentioned open gates leading to Silwan area, and was intended triple gate in the year 746 AH – 1345 AD.
*The Marwani Prayer Hall reached until the year 900 AH – 1495 AD from outside the fence, the triple or single gate as pointed out by Hanbali.
*During the excavations in the Umayyad region, the wall of Ayyubi revealed in front of the closed gates, this indicates that the Ayyubids protected the gates by building a fence in front of them and not closing it, as it believed.
It is likely that the tripled and single gates completely closed after the reconstruction of the wall at the beginning of the Ottoman period.
*After the Zionist occupation of Jerusalem in 1967
Following the failure of Jewish excavations in the Umayyad palaces south of Al Aqsa Mosque to prove any right to the Jews, they claimed that the triangular gate (as well as the double gate) of their alleged temple, called them ” Khalda gate “.
They also claimed that they discovered the remains of Second, from the era of the Second Temple leading for there, and took it as an excuse to build a stone staircase along part of the southern wall of the Aqsa, specifically in the region between the triple and double gates.
Thanks to Allah, Muslims were able to reduce that danger through restoration work for their worshipers.
In 2001
As a result of excavations, part of the southern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque split, between the triple gate and the single gate with a length of about 30 meters, this was the most severe eruption of Al-Aqsa Mosque since the occupation.
History
Overlooking the Dar Al-Emara and the existing Umayyad palaces south of Al-Aqsa, leading to the western wall of the Marwani Prayer Hall located inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.