Jaffa Gate
Jaffa Gate is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate from 1538, and for the wide gap in the city wall adjacent to it to the south.Photo: Hreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: יעל י, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Gate
- Description: one of seven open gates in Jerusalem’s Old City walls
- Also known as: “Bāb al-Ḫalīl”
Photo: Ricardo Tulio Gandelman, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Dome of the Rock.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Church of the Holy Sepulchre is situated 280 metres northeast of Jaffa Gate.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. 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. Dome of the Rock is situated 740 metres east of Jaffa Gate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Armenian Quarter and Christian Quarter.
Armenian Quarter
Neighborhood
Photo: Yonah baby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Armenian Quarter is one of the four sectors of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. Located in the southwestern corner of the Old City, it can be accessed through the Zion Gate and Jaffa Gate.
Christian Quarter
Neighborhood
Photo: Ghaly, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Christian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.
Jerusalem
Photo: Aniacra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.
Jaffa Gate
- Categories: city gate and tourist attraction
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Jaffa Gate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باب الخليل”
- Armenian: “Յաֆֆյան դարպասներ”
- Azerbaijani: “Yaffa qapısı”
- Basque: “Jaffako Atea”
- Chinese: “雅法門”
- Chinese: “雅法门”
- Croatian: “Jaffanska vrata”
- Czech: “Jaffská brána”
- Dutch: “Jaffa Gate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب الخليل”
- Esperanto: “Pordego de Jaffa”
- Esperanto: “Pordego de Jafo”
- Finnish: “Jaffan portti”
- French: “porte de Jaffa”
- French: “Porte de Jaffa”
- German: “Bab al-Chalil”
- German: “Jaffa-Tor”
- German: “Jaffator”
- Greek: “Πύλη της Γιάφας”
- Hebrew: “שער יפו”
- Hungarian: “Jaffai kapu”
- Indonesian: “Gerbang Jaffa”
- Italian: “Porta di Giaffa”
- Japanese: “ジャファ・ゲート”
- Japanese: “ヤッフォ門”
- Javanese: “Gerbang Jaffa”
- Javanese: “Jaffa Gate”
- Ladino: “Porta de Yafo”
- Ladino: “Puerta de Jaffa”
- Macedonian: “Порта Јафа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaffaporten”
- Norwegian: “Jaffaporten”
- Persian: “دروازه خلیل”
- Persian: “دروازهٔ خلیل”
- Persian: “دروازه یافا”
- Persian: “دروازهٔ یافا”
- Polish: “Brama Jafy”
- Portuguese: “Portão de Jafa”
- Portuguese: “Portão de Jaffa”
- Romanian: “Poarta Jaffa”
- Russian: “Яффские ворота”
- Slovenian: “Džafska vrata”
- Spanish: “Puerta de Jaffa”
- Tamil: “யோப்பா வாயில்”
- Turkish: “El Halîl Kapısı”
- Turkish: “Yafa Kapısı”
- Ukrainian: “Яффські ворота”
- Urdu: “باب الخلیل”
- Western Panjabi: “جافا گیٹ”
- Yiddish: “יפו טויער”
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