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Bab Alasbat (Bab Al-Osoud)

In the center of this facade is an entrance topped by a thirteen-sided stone roof, a direct rectangular stone plaque, placed above the contract, the original bears a writing, but it appears to be decorative here, as is the case with a number of these paintings in the wall and some Ottoman monuments Other.

Built
945 CE
Built by
Sultan Suleiman

Location relative to the Old City

Located in the eastern wall of the Old City Wall, reaches it via a road leading up from Wadi Qadron (Wadi Jahannm “Valley of Hell”), this road separates two Islamic tombs, the southern one known as the Bab al-Rahma cemetery and the northern one in the name of the Yusufiya cemetery.

Reason for the name

Named after the twelve Israelite Asbat.

Builder

Sultan Suleiman

History

Year 945 e

Shape and details

Alasbat gate is the only gate opened in the eastern wall of the Old Town of Jerusalem since its foundation until today.

Is the gate of the old gates of the Old Town and has an entrance destroyed inside it.

Interfaces of the gate

The gate of Alasbat has three facades: an oriental one that meets the interior of the Old Town, one west and another south dominated by simplicity.

The eastern facade is a massive stone and the lower section of this facade rises to 11 course built of large untidy stones.

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