Features adjacent to the Gate
From the northern side is attached to a link called “Ribat al-Kurd”, next to the wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Jews and the Gate
Claiming that the wall of the Rabat contains large stones dating back to the era of their alleged temple, and narrowing the settlers and the Zionist soldiers who come on this wall on the entrances to the Al Aqsa of the Gate Iron, which threatens the fate of Bab Al Magharba next to the wall of Al-Buraq (which is called the Zionists on it the name of the “Wailing Wall”), which has been closed to Muslims since the occupiers seized the wall.
Location relative to Al-Aqsa
On the western side, specifically in the western corridor of Al-
Aqsa Mosque, between my Gate Nazer and Qattanin.
Reason for the name
Other name: (Bab Dar Umm Khaled) -Causes for its name: Does not know why it is called the Iron Gate, some says that the reason is that the Mamluk Prince Arjun Kamali was renew and that the meaning of Argun in Turkish iron is a wrong statement has no origin and has said this saying the Maqdese historian Aref al-Aref, 1973 AD , and this had been puplished in the books of the mosque guides Al Aqsa without investigation or scrutiny. Proof that the saying is wrong: Arjun al-Kamali settled in Jerusalem until his death (758 AH-1357 AD) and buried in his school of the Argonne by gluing the iron Gate from outside. Before settling in Jerusalem, he visited the traveler's city Ibn Fadl Umari (745AH- 1345 AD) and described the Gate and described the mention of the iron Gate, that is, the Gate was called The iron Gate before Argun. -Cause of naming it Bab Dar Om Khalid name: It can be assumed that the name of the Gate in the early Islamic period Bab Bab Dar Umm Khalid by Ibn al-Faqih 290 H-903 M and Maqdisi al-Bishari.
Shape and details
A simple building without decorations, climbing several degrees from outside.
The entrance rectangular and length is about 3 meters and two meters wide and the width of the Gate contract as a rest Contracts of the western gallery.