Damascus Gate

The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to , which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times…
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls
  • Also known as: “Bab al-Amud”
  • Address: القدس
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Dome of the Rock.

Church
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The , also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the of the of . is situated 370 metres south of Damascus Gate.

Place of worship
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad. is situated 620 metres southeast of Damascus Gate.

Museum
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Zedekiah's Cave, also known as Solomon's Quarries, is a 5-acre underground meleke limestone quarry under the of the of that runs the length of five city blocks, named after King Zedekiah. is situated 110 metres northeast of Damascus Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muslim Quarter and East Jerusalem.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of , the other three being the , the and the .

Damascus Gate

Latitude
31.78168° or 31° 46′ 54″ north
Longitude
35.23035° or 35° 13′ 49″ east
Elevation
759 metres (2,490 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6JJ+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
6957220
Wiki­data ID
Q947597
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Damascus Gate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “‎باب العامود‎,”
  • Arabic: “باب العامود”
  • Arabic: “باب العمود”
  • Armenian: “Դամասկոսյան դարպասներ”
  • Armenian: “Դամասկոսյան կամ Շհեմի դարպասներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəməşq qapısı”
  • Basque: “Damaskoko Atea”
  • Bengali: “দামেস্ক গেট”
  • Chinese: “大马士革门”
  • Croatian: “Damaščanska vrata”
  • Czech: “Damašská brána”
  • Dutch: “Damascus Gate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باب العامود”
  • Esperanto: “Damaska pordego”
  • Finnish: “Damaskoksen portti”
  • Finnish: “Damaskosportti”
  • French: “porte de Damas”
  • French: “Porte de Damas”
  • Galician: “Porta de Damasco”
  • German: “Damaskustor”
  • Greek: “Πύλη της Δαμασκού (Ιερουσαλήμ)”
  • Greek: “Πύλη της Δαμασκού”
  • Hebrew: “באב אל-עאמוד”
  • Hebrew: “שער דמשק”
  • Hebrew: “שער שכם”
  • Hebrew: “שער שכם‎”
  • Hindi: “दमिश्क गेट”
  • Hungarian: “Damaszkuszi kapu”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Damaskus”
  • Italian: “Porta di Damasco”
  • Japanese: “ダマスカス門”
  • Japanese: “ダマスクス門(バーブルアームード)”
  • Macedonian: “Дамаската порта”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Damaskusporten”
  • Norwegian: “Damaskusporten”
  • Persian: “دروازه دمشق”
  • Persian: “دروازه عمود”
  • Persian: “دروازه‌های تاریخی دمشق”
  • Polish: “Brama Damasceńska”
  • Portuguese: “Portão de Damasco”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Damasc”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Damascului”
  • Russian: “Дамасские ворота”
  • Slovenian: “Damaščanska vrata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شام قاپیسی”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Damasco”
  • Tamil: “தமஸ்கு வாயில்”
  • Turkish: “Şam Kapısı”
  • Ukrainian: “Дамаські ворота”
  • Urdu: “باب دمشق”
  • Urdu: “بابِ دمشق”
  • Western Panjabi: “باب دمشق”
  • Western Panjabi: “بابِ دمشق”
  • Western Panjabi: “دمشق بوہا”
  • Western Panjabi: “دمشق گیٹ”
  • Yiddish: “שער שכם”

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