Herod’s Gate

Herod's Gate is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It connects the inside of the old city to the eponymic Palestinian neighbourhood of , situated just outside.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls
  • Also known as: “Bab az-Zahra”
  • Address: القدس

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Pool of Bethesda.

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 570 metres south of Herod’s Gate.

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The is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in , described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. is situated 270 metres southeast of Herod’s Gate.

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The 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… is situated 350 metres southwest of Herod’s Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Jerusalem and Muslim Quarter.

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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 sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

Suburb
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is an Arab neighborhood in , north of the . It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, to the east, Herod's Gate and on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and to the west.

Herod’s Gate

Latitude
31.78296° or 31° 46′ 59″ north
Longitude
35.23368° or 35° 14′ 1″ east
Elevation
759 metres (2,490 feet)
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
6957223
Wiki­data ID
Q1484405
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Herod’s Gate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باب الساهرة”
  • Arabic: “باب الساهره”
  • Armenian: “Հերովդեսի դարպաս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Herod qapısı”
  • Basque: “Herodesen Atea”
  • Chinese: “希律门”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باب الساهره”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوابة هيرودس”
  • Esperanto: “Pordo de Herodo”
  • Finnish: “Herodeksen portti”
  • French: “porte d’Hérode”
  • French: “Porte d’Hérode”
  • German: “Herodestor”
  • Greek: “Πύλη του Ηρώδη (Ιερουσαλήμ)”
  • Greek: “Πύλη του Ηρώδη”
  • Hebrew: “שער הורדוס”
  • Hebrew: “שער הפרחים”
  • Hungarian: “Heródes-kapu”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Herod”
  • Italian: “Porta di Erode”
  • Japanese: “ヘロデ門”
  • Macedonian: “Иродова порта”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herodesporten”
  • Norwegian: “Herodesporten”
  • Persian: “دروازه ساهره”
  • Polish: “Brama Heroda”
  • Romanian: “Poarta lui Irod”
  • Russian: “Ворота Ирода”
  • Slovenian: “Herodova vrata”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Herodes”
  • Tamil: “ஏரோது வாயில்”
  • Turkish: “Herod Kapısı (eski)”
  • Ukrainian: “Ворота Ірода”
  • Urdu: “باب ساہرہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیروڈ گیٹ”

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