New Gate
The New Gate is the newest of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in 1889 by the Ottomans under the directorship of the French consul and Franciscan brotherhood monkship order to provide direct access between the Christian Quarter and the new neighborhoods then going up outside the walls.- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of 790 metres (2,592 feet)
- Description: one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls
- Address: Jerusalem
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Jaffa Gate.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the… Church of the Holy Sepulchre is situated 360 metres east of New Gate.
Jaffa Gate
City gate
Jaffa Gate is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. Jaffa Gate is situated 320 metres southeast of New Gate.
Damascus Gate
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. Damascus Gate is situated 470 metres northeast of New Gate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jerusalem and Musrara.
Musrara
Suburb
Musrara is a formerly Ottoman neighborhood in what is now West Jerusalem.
Christian Quarter
Neighborhood
The Christian Quarter is one of the four quarters…
New Gate
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Latitude
31.77931° or 31° 46′ 46″ north
Longitude
35.22619° or 35° 13′ 34″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6HG+PF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=city_gate
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“New Gate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الباب الجديد”
- Arabic: “باب الجديد ( القدس ، فلسطين)”
- Arabic: “باب الجديد (القدس)”
- Arabic: “باب الجديد”
- Arabic: “باب الجديد”
- Armenian: “Նոր դարպասներ”
- Breton: “Porzh Nevez”
- Chinese: “事實”
- Chinese: “新门”
- Chinese: “稱”
- Croatian: “Nova vrata”
- Czech: “Nová brána”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب الجديد”
- Finnish: “Uusiportti”
- French: “Nouvelle Porte”
- German: “Neues Tor”
- Greek: “Νέα Πύλη”
- Hebrew: “השער החדש”
- Hebrew: “השער החדש”
- Hungarian: “Új-kapu”
- Indonesian: “Gerbang Baru”
- Italian: “Porta Nuova”
- Japanese: “新門”
- Macedonian: “Нова порта”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den nye porten”
- Norwegian: “Den nye porten”
- Norwegian: “Nyporten”
- Persian: “دروازه نو”
- Polish: “Brama Nowa w Jerozolimie”
- Polish: “Brama Nowa”
- Romanian: “Noua Poartă”
- Romanian: “Poarta Nouă”
- Russian: “Новые ворота”
- Slovenian: “Nova vrata”
- Spanish: “Puerta Nueva”
- Tamil: “புது வாயில்”
- Turkish: “Yeni Kapı”
- Ukrainian: “Нові ворота”
- Urdu: “باب جدید”
- Western Panjabi: “نواں گیٹ”
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