Bab Sharqi
Bab Sharqi, also known as the Gate of the Sun, is one of the seven ancient city gates of Damascus, Syria. Its modern name comes from its location in the eastern side of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Gate
- Description: ancient city gate of Damascus
- Also known as: “Bāb Sharqī”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Orthodox Armenian Church and Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus.
Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus
Church
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Syria. While a metropolitan see, the Archeparchy of Damascus is without suffragans and is exempt directly to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Damascus and Sarouja.
Damascus
Photo: علي الصمادي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. A city of immense historical importance, Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.
Sarouja
Town
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Sarouja is a municipality of Damascus, Syria, due north of the Old Damascus. It was the first part of Damascus to be built outside the city walls in the 13th century.
Jobar
Village
Jobar also Jawbar, Jober or Joubar, is a village on the outskirts of Damascus northeast of the old city walls. It contains the most venerated site for Syrian Jews, the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue, named for the biblical prophet Elijah, and has been a place of Jewish pilgrimage for many centuries. Jobar is situated 2½ km northeast of Bab Sharqi.
Bab Sharqi
- Categories: city gate and Ancient City of Damascus
- Location: Damascus Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bab Sharqi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باب شرقي دمشق”
- Arabic: “باب شرقي”
- Catalan: “Bab Xarqi”
- Catalan: “Porta de l’Est”
- Catalan: “Porta del Sol”
- Chinese: “东门”
- Dutch: “Bab Sharqi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باب شرقى”
- Finnish: “Bab Šarqi”
- French: “Bab Charki”
- German: “Bab Scharki”
- German: “Bab Scharqi”
- German: “Osttor”
- Indonesian: “Bab Syarqi”
- Italian: “Bab Sharqi”
- Japanese: “ダマスクス旧市街の東門”
- Malay: “Bab Sharqi”
- Persian: “باب شرقی”
- Russian: “Баб Шарки”
- Spanish: “Bab Sharqi”
- Turkish: “Bab Şarki”
- Uzbek: “Bab Sharqiy”
- Uzbek: “Bob Sharqiy”
- Uzbek: “Quyosh darvozasi”
- Uzbek: “Sharqiy darvoza”
- Vietnamese: “Bab Sharqi”
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