closes the entrance to the entrance two columns – two parts of the gate – of the wood covered with copper and connects the entrance to a distributor with a ceiling vaulted fan and a small room to reach the corridor turns left.
Between the opening of the entrance and the tapered arch is a decorative inscription.
As for the road that leads to the gate, established at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the east, because of the method of building the entrances of the walls in the middle Ages and is entering the gate at a straight angle.
In the front of the interior gate, there are geometric decorations comprising three circles of stone hexagonal of the convergence of the triangles legs equal, called the ring of Suleiman or the Star of David is an Islamic decoration of Islamic art and has nothing to do with the slogan of the occupation.
In addition, there is inscription written in the Ottoman Thuluth handwriting.
At the beginning of the gate, a large opening in one of the towers of the northern wall of the Old City wall.
In the Crusader period, it was not built, as the gate was built to facilitate the entry of residents of the neighborhoods such as Bab Hatta and Saadia to new neighborhoods built after the middle of the 19th century in the north as Haret Nusaiba, Sahira and Husayniyah.
It also called the flowers gate – Hebrew – and Herod and Medellin gate – English.
