Damascus Gate
Damascus Gate is a tram stop in Israel. Damascus Gate is situated nearby to the park HaTsanhanim Garden, as well as near the bus station HaNevi’im Terminal.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Damascus Gate and Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Damascus Gate
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times… Damascus Gate is situated 250 metres east of Damascus Gate.
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 500 metres south of Damascus Gate.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
Photo: DoaaFayad0, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 1 km southeast of Damascus Gate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Musrara and Bab az-Zahra.
Musrara
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Musrara is a formerly Ottoman neighborhood in what is now West Jerusalem. It is bordered by the Israeli neighborhoods of Mea Shearim and Beit Yisrael to the north, by the Russian Compound and Kikar Safra to the west, and by Mamilla mall to the south, and the Old City to the east.
Bab az-Zahra
Suburb
Photo: Sir kiss, Public domain.
Bab az-Zahra is an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, north of the Old City. It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, Wadi al-Joz to the east, Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and Mea Shearim to the west.
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.
Damascus Gate
- Type: Tram stop
- Categories: railway stop, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.78248° or 31° 46′ 57″ northLongitude
35.22782° or 35° 13′ 40″ eastOpen location code
8G3QQ6JH+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1405968969OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=tram_stopWikidata ID
Q113378059
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Romanian—“Damascus Gate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باب العامود”
- Arabic: “باب العمود”
- French: “Porte de Damas”
- German: “Damaskustor”
- Hebrew: “שער שכם”
- Hebrew: “תחנת שער שכם”
- Italian: “Porta di Damasco”
- Romanian: “Poarta Damasc”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include HaTsanhanim Garden and HaNevi’im Terminal.
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