Gates
- Total
- 13
Bab Al-Mufrad (Single gate) (Bab Al-Ain)
Landmark Location: It is a closed southern entrance in the southeastern part of the city wall and Al-Aqsa…
Bab Alasbat (Bab Al-Osoud)
In the center of this facade is an entrance topped by a thirteen-sided stone roof, a direct rectangular…
Bab Al-Jana’iz (Funeral Gate)
The historian Majir al-Din Says: (a nice closed gate, which is across the stairs of the rock known as Badr…
Bab Al-Tawba and Al-Rahma
Landmark Location: Located 200 meters south of the Asbat Gate in the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque…
Al-Bab Al-Thulathi (The Triple Gate) (The Gate of the Mihrab of Maryam)
Landmark Location: Three adjacent gates in the southern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque wall 50 meters from the…
Bab Al-Muzdawaj (Double Gate) (Prophet’s Gate)
Landmark Location relative to Dome of the rock: At the south-west.
Al-Magharibah Gate (Bab al-Nabi / al-Buraq)
In the era of the gate was not a gate, but was a tower was built in (947 AH / 1540).
Bab Aldeman
Discovered the gate in the twentieth century specifically in the nineties.
Bab Anabi Dawood (The gate of the prophet David)
The gate closed between 1948 and 196, because it was overlooking the west of Jerusalem directly.
Al-Khalil Gate
It is one of the most important gates located in the wall of the Old Town and overlooks a larger area of the…
Bab Al-Sahera
The gate is small with stone decorations; its construction is simple within the tower square shape consists of…
Bab Al-Amoud (Nablus Gate / Damascus Gate)
Landmark History:The old gate was built in 135 AD and the current in 1538.
Al-Bab Al-Jadeed (The New Gate) (Bab Abdul Hamid)
Located in the wall of the Old Town on the north-west side between Bab al-Amud and Bab al-Khalil, which is…
Common questions
How many Gates are in The Old City?
QudsInfo lists 13 Gates in The Old City, including Bab Al-Mufrad (Single gate) (Bab Al-Ain), Bab Alasbat (Bab Al-Osoud), and Bab Al-Jana’iz (Funeral Gate).
What is the best-known of the Gates in The Old City?
Bab Al-Mufrad (Single gate) (Bab Al-Ain): Landmark Location: It is a closed southern entrance in the southeastern part of the city wall and Al-Aqsa…
Bab Al-Mufrad (Single gate) (Bab Al-Ain)