Lions’ Gate

Lions' Gate, also St Stephen's Gate, is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It leads into the of the Old City.
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  • Type: Sally port
  • Description: one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls
  • Also known as: “Bāb al-Asbāṭ”, “Lions‘ Gate”, “Saint Stephen’s Gate”, and “Stephen’s Gate”
Photo: Chris Yunker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pool of Bethesda and Dome of the Rock.

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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 110 metres northwest of Lions’ 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 350 metres southwest of Lions’ Gate.

Church
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The Church of Saint Anne is a French Catholic church and part of the French national domain in the Holy Land located in the of the Old City of , near the start of the Via Dolorosa, next to the Lions' Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gethsemane and Muslim Quarter.

Locality
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is a garden at the foot of the in , where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

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.

Lions’ Gate

Latitude
31.78084° or 31° 46′ 51″ north
Longitude
35.23694° or 35° 14′ 13″ east
Elevation
739 metres (2,425 feet)
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
6957225
Wiki­data ID
Q129278
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lions’ Gate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باب الأسباط”
  • Chinese: “狮子门”
  • Chinese: “獅子門”
  • Czech: “Lví brána”
  • Dutch: “Leeuwenpoort”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باب الاسباط”
  • Estonian: “Ariel (judaism)”
  • Estonian: “Ariel”
  • Finnish: “Leijonaportti”
  • French: “Porte aux Lions”
  • French: “porte des Lions”
  • French: “Porte des Lions”
  • German: “Löwentor”
  • German: “Stephanstor”
  • Greek: “Πύλη των Λεόντων (της Ιερουσαλήμ)”
  • Greek: “Πύλη των Λεόντων”
  • Hebrew: “שער האריות”
  • Hindi: “सिंह द्वार”
  • Hungarian: “Oroszlán-kapu”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Domba”
  • Indonesian: “Pintu Gerbang Domba”
  • Italian: “Porta dei Leoni”
  • Japanese: “ライオン門”
  • Macedonian: “Лавовска порта”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Løveporten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St Stefansporten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Stefansporten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stefansporten”
  • Norwegian: “Løveporten”
  • Persian: “دروازه اسباط”
  • Persian: “دروازهٔ اسباط”
  • Polish: “Brama Lwów”
  • Polish: “Brama Świętego Szczepana”
  • Portuguese: “Portão do Leão”
  • Romanian: “Poarta „Sfântului Ștefan””
  • Romanian: “Poarta Leilor”
  • Romanian: “Poarta lui Ștefan”
  • Russian: “Львиные ворота”
  • Russian: “Львиные Ворота”
  • Slovenian: “Levja vrata”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de los Leones”
  • Swedish: “Lejonporten”
  • Tamil: “சிங்க வாயில்”
  • Turkish: “Aslanlı Kapı, Kudüs”
  • Ukrainian: “Левові ворота”
  • Urdu: “باب اسباط”
  • Western Panjabi: “شیرانوالا گیٹ”

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