Zion Gate

Zion Gate, also known in Arabic as Bab Sahyun or Bab Harat al-Yahud, is one of the seven historic Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls
  • Also known as: “Bab an-Nabi Dawud”
  • Address: Jerusalem

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cenacle and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Church
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The , also known as the Upper Room, is a room in in , just outside the Old City walls, traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper, the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus held with the apostles. is situated 110 metres south of Zion Gate.

Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or in the compound in the Old City of . is situated 670 metres northeast of Zion Gate.

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 610 metres north of Zion Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Armenian Quarter and Mount Zion.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the walled Old City of . Located in the southwestern corner of the Old City, it can be accessed through the Zion Gate and .

Suburb
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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.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four traditional quarters of the . The area lies in the southwestern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the on the west, up to the Street of the Chain in the north and extends to the and the in the east.

Zion Gate

Latitude
31.77286° or 31° 46′ 22″ north
Longitude
35.22964° or 35° 13′ 47″ east
Elevation
774 metres (2,539 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6FH+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5003920348
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6957227
Wiki­data ID
Q205416
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Zion Gate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باب النبي داود‎,”
  • Arabic: “باب النبي داود”
  • Armenian: “Սիոնի դարպաս”
  • Basque: “Siongo Atea”
  • Chinese: “锡安门”
  • Croatian: “Sionska vrata”
  • Czech: “Sijónská brána”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باب النبى داود”
  • Esperanto: “Pordego Ciono”
  • Finnish: “Siioninportti”
  • French: “porte de Sion”
  • French: “Porte de Sion”
  • German: “Zionstor”
  • Greek: “Πύλη Σιών (της Ιερουσαλήμ)”
  • Greek: “Πύλη της Σιών”
  • Hebrew: “שער ציון”
  • Hebrew: “שער ציון‎”
  • Hungarian: “Sion-kapu”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Zion”
  • Italian: “Porta di Sion”
  • Japanese: “シオン門”
  • Macedonian: “Сионска порта”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sionporten”
  • Norwegian: “Sionporten”
  • Polish: “Brama Dawida”
  • Polish: “Brama Syjonu”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Sion”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Sionului”
  • Russian: “Сионские ворота”
  • Slovenian: “Sionska vrata”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Sion”
  • Tamil: “சீயோன் வாயில்”
  • Turkish: “Siyon Kapısı”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіонські ворота”
  • Urdu: “باب صیہون”
  • Western Panjabi: “صیہون گیٹ”

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