Jaffa Gate

Jaffa Gate is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate from 1538, and for the wide gap in the city wall adjacent to it to the south.
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  • Type: City gate
  • Description: one of seven open gates in Jerusalem’s Old City walls
  • Address: Jerusalem
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Dome of the Rock.

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 290 metres northeast of Jaffa 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 750 metres east of Jaffa 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 760 metres east of Jaffa Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Armenian Quarter and Christian Quarter.

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 and .

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of , the other three being the , the and the .

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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.

Jaffa Gate

Latitude
31.77663° or 31° 46′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.22754° or 35° 13′ 39″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
node 561157424
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q312812
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Jaffa Gate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Bab Al-Khalil”
  • Arabic: “باب الخليل”
  • Armenian: “Յաֆֆյան դարպասներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yaffa qapısı”
  • Basque: “Jaffako Atea”
  • Chinese: “雅法門”
  • Chinese: “雅法门”
  • Czech: “Jaffská brána”
  • Dutch: “Jaffa Gate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باب الخليل”
  • Esperanto: “Pordego de Jaffa”
  • Esperanto: “Pordego de Jafo”
  • Finnish: “Jaffan portti”
  • Finnish: “Jaffaportti”
  • French: “porte de Jaffa”
  • French: “Porte de Jaffa”
  • German: “Jaffa-Tor”
  • German: “Jaffator”
  • Greek: “Πύλη της Γιάφας”
  • Hebrew: “שער יפו”
  • Hungarian: “Jaffai kapu”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Jaffa”
  • Italian: “Porta di Giaffa”
  • Japanese: “ジャファ・ゲート”
  • Japanese: “ヤッフォ門”
  • Javanese: “Gerbang Jaffa”
  • Javanese: “Jaffa Gate”
  • Ladino: “Porta de Yafo”
  • Ladino: “Puerta de Jaffa”
  • Macedonian: “Порта Јафа”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaffaporten”
  • Norwegian: “Jaffaporten”
  • Persian: “دروازه خلیل”
  • Persian: “دروازهٔ خلیل”
  • Persian: “دروازه یافا”
  • Persian: “دروازهٔ یافا”
  • Polish: “Brama Jafska”
  • Polish: “Brama Jafy”
  • Portuguese: “Portão de Jafa”
  • Portuguese: “Portão de Jaffa”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Jaffa”
  • Russian: “Яффские ворота”
  • Slovenian: “Džafska vrata”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Jaffa”
  • Tamil: “யோப்பா வாயில்”
  • Turkish: “El Halîl Kapısı”
  • Turkish: “Yafa Kapısı”
  • Ukrainian: “Яффські ворота”
  • Urdu: “باب الخلیل”
  • Western Panjabi: “جافا گیٹ”
  • Yiddish: “יפו טויער”

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