{"id":4756,"date":"2019-03-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?page_id=4756"},"modified":"2019-03-14T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:59:09","slug":"the-gates-of-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/the-gates-of-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GATES OF JERUSALEM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jerusalem Old City – New Gate<\/p><\/div>\n

Many myths surround the walls and the eight gates of Jerusalem\u2019s Old City <\/strong>– one tells of the Ottoman caliph, Suleiman the Magnificent. One night in a dream the four lions that had guarded the throne of Kings David and Solomon came to savage him, as punishment for the heavy taxes he\u2019d imposed upon the city.<\/p>\n

Waking in a sweat, he cancelled the tax and ordered a two-and-a-half mile limestone wall to be built around Jerusalem instead. Where the work began in 1538, Suleiman erected a gate adorned with four lions, in memory of his dream.<\/p>\n

This is the legend of the Lions\u2019 Gate<\/strong>, although another version sometimes ascribes it to Sultan Baybars, the 13th century founder of the Mameluk State. The Gate is also called St. Stephen\u2019s after the first Christian martyr who was stoned to death here, Acts 7.<\/p>\n

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The Zion Gate. The walls are constructed on the foundations laid by Herod the Great.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Zion Gate<\/strong> is the entrance to the Jewish Quarter. It is called Bab el Daoud, in Arabic – David\u2019s Gate – after the king whose tomb is on Mount Zion opposite.<\/p>\n

Taking its name from the garbage that Christians used to throw on the ruins of the Temple in Byzantine times, the Dung Gate<\/strong> leads to the Western Wall. Near Herod\u2019s Gate, Crusader siege towers breached the walls of the city in 1099. It is the entrance to the Moslem quarter.<\/p>\n

The most ornate example of Ottoman design is the Damascus Gate<\/strong>, built where the Roman Emperor Hadrian opened a northern entrance nearly 2,000 years ago. Still visible today, his Triple Gate once led onto the city\u2019s main thoroughfare.<\/p>\n

A Moslem tradition says that a destroying conqueror will one day enter the city through the Golden Gate<\/strong><\/a> – thus the gate is blocked and is guarded by a cemetery. The Jews believe that the Messiah will enter Jerusalem from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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For Christians it marks the place where Jesus Christ indeed entered the Temple Mount. Standing above the Susa Gate, the entrance to the area called Solomon\u2019s Porch in Acts 3:11, it is where early Christians gathered to meet.<\/p>\n

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