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The Old City Gates: The Jaffa Gate to the New City
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  • By Goner on January 8, 2003
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  • The New City - Jerusalem
    The New City
    by Goner
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    Jaffa Gate, built in 1538, opens onto Jaffa Road. This 2-mile long road makes use of the old route from Jaffa to Jerusalem. It was paved over in 1898 for the arrival of Kaiser Wilhelm II and is now lined with businesses. Along this street you will find the Mahaneh Yehuda, the covered market of stalls packed with everything literally from fruits to nuts. Small cafes dot this area and the street is animated day and night.

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    The Old City Gates: Outdoor Market at Damascus Gate
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  • Updated By jadedmuse on March 23, 2008
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  • The Old City Gates - Jerusalem
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    Known to the Arabs as "Bab al-Amud", the Damascus Gate plays host to a lively outdoor market every Sunday. It's great to see the locals buying breads and produce and other material goods (basically the same things they can get inside the Old City, but with more elbow room).

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    The Old City Gates: Damascus Gate
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  • Updated By jadedmuse on March 23, 2008
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    Damascus Gate is the most photogenic and impressive of the Old Walled City gates. It's a great place to observe the busy lives of the locals.

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    The Old City Gates: Golden Gate
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  • Updated By WorldMeet2008 on July 31, 2007
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    The Golden Gate is the most impressive gate in Jerusalem, and the only visible entrance to the city of Jerusalem from the East. This oldest of all the gates to the city was the only one not rebuilt by Suleiman the Magnificent in AD 1539-42. Monolithic stones in the wall just above ground have been identified as 6th Century BC masonry from the time of Nehemiah. The Golden Gate was walled up by the Arabs in the year 810. It has remained closed now for nearly 12 centuries. The Golden Gate has long interested many Muslims, most Jews and Christians as the place of the Last Judgment. Historically, judgments were rendered in the gates of the city (Gen. 19:1, 23:10, for instance). Since the Messiah was to come from the East (Matthew 24:27), it was concluded that his judgment would be at the eastern gate. This is one reason for the many Muslim, Christian, and Jewish graves on the Eastern slopes of the Temple Mount, in the Kidron Valley, and on the Western slopes of the Mount of Olives Some Muslims place Allah's final judgment at this location also. Jews link the Messiah's arrival with this gate and Christians have for centuries associated the Golden Gate with Palm Sunday and also with the Second Advent (Luke 19:35-38). Muslims compare the final judgment of mankind to the crossing of a narrow knife blade which stretches from a mountain (the Mount of Olives is often mentioned in Arab legend) to the "gate of heaven." This knife-edged bridge evidently spans the Kidron Valley - as did an ancient stone bridge in Roman times.


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    The Old City Gates: Damascus Gate
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  • Updated By haiamisa on July 14, 2007
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  • Damascus Gate - Jerusalem
    Damascus Gate
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    Damascus Gate is the most beautiful gate of the Old City Gates. (IMHO) Read more about Jerusalem Old City gates in the link below.

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  • Website: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/gates.html

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    The Old City Gates: Zion Gate
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  • By ophiro on June 22, 2006
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    Zion gate (also known as david's gate , the jews gate , the jewish quarter gate) was build in 1540 and it is the entrance to the Jewish quarter. The entrance has a sharp angle so it will stop an attack (or slow down).

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  • Address: Old city

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    The Old City Gates: Garbage Gate
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  • By ophiro on June 22, 2006
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    the gate from the old city.
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    The garbage gate (Sha'ar Ha'Ashpot) is located close to the western wall and the temple mount and was built in 1537. The name of the gate is because from this place people used to take out the garbage outside the city.

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  • Directions: south to the western wall.

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    The Old City Gates: Jaffa Gate
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  • By ophiro on February 17, 2007
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    The Jaffa gate is very close to the David's Citadel in the old city of Jerusalem. The gate was built in 1530 and the got his name because he was the gate that people came out to Jaffa. Other names are Hebron gate and David's gate.

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    The Old City Gates: Damascus Gate
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  • Updated By freya_heaven on September 9, 2004
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    The second place we stayed in at Jerusalem was opposite the outside of the Damascus Gate, so it was a thoroughfare in to the old city I used often. The Arabic name for the Damascus Gate is Bab el-Amud (Gate of the Column), Hebrew name is Sha'ar Shechem (Nablus Gate) In the days of Jesus it was known for the Money changers who do their business at the gate, They were still doing business at the Damascus Gate when I was there

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  • Directions: North East of the old City walls

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    The Old City Gates: Visit the Old City. As with so...
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  • By tvdm on September 12, 2002
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  • The Old City Gates - Jerusalem
    by tvdm
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    Visit the Old City. As with so many other places: you haven't been to Jerusalem if you didn't see this part. This is the gate where we enetered the town, I seem to recall it is named the Gate of David. The sheer pleasure of admiring the beautiful town and its colorful people is worth the trip!

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