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Golden Gate, Jerusalem

unknown (Byzantine)
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Alternative Titles
Sha'ar Harachamim
Gate of Mercy
Bab al-Rahma
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/152241
Date
520-529
Description
Detail, the center springing of the arches of the sealed double doors; The Golden Gate, as it is called in Christian literature, is the oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls. The present gate was probably built in the 520s CE, as part of Justinian I's building program in Jerusalem, on top of the ruins of the earlier gate in the wall. An alternate theory holds that it was built in the later part of the 7th century by Byzantine artisans employed by the Umayyad khalifs. The Golden Gate is one of the few sealed gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls, along with the Huldah Gates. The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent sealed off the Golden Gate in 1541. While this may have been purely for defensive reasons, in Jewish tradition, this is the gate through which the Messiah will enter Jerusalem. Christians believe this is the gate that Jesus rode through on Palm Sunday; Muslims believe it is the site of the future resurrection. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 5/3/2013)
Type of Work
city gate; fortification
Subject
architecture, military or war, rulers and leaders, Roman Empire, Suleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 5-1566, battlements, Byzantine, Umayyad
Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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