Golden Gate (Jerusalem)

The Golden Gate, as it is called in Christian literature, is the oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls. Jews used to pray for mercy at the gate, hence the name Sha'ar Harachamim, the Gate of Mercy. In Arabic, it is known as the Gate of Eternal Life. In ancient times, the gate was known as the Beautiful Gate.

It was probably built in the 520s CE, as part of Justinian I's building program in Jerusalem, on top of the ruins of an earlier gate in the wall. An alternate theory holds that it was built in the later part of the 7th century by Byzantine Empire artisans employed by the Umayyad khalifs.

The gate is located in the middle of the eastern side of the Temple Mount. The portal in this position was believed to have been used for ritual purposes in biblical times.

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Golden Gate 

architectural structure; Gate of ancient city wall of Jerusalem
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Instance of	city gate architectural structure tourist attraction
Part of	Masjid Al-Aqsa (Eastern Wall) Gates of Al-Aqsa
Name in native language	بَابُ الرَّحْمَةِ
Named after	Mercy of God in Islam
Location	Old City of Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, West Bank, Southern Levant, Fertile Crescent
Architectural style	Islamic architecture
Maintained by	Jerusalem Islamic Waqf The Council of Endowments, Islamic Affairs, and Holy Sites in Jerusalem
Height	11.5 m
Follows	Tribes' Gate
Followed by	Gate of the Funerals
Different from	Złota Brama
31° 46′ 44″ N, 35° 14′ 13″ E
Authority file  Q1367167 Library of Congress authority ID: sh00001897 Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 15908699w IdRef ID: 131066641 BabelNet ID: 02384607n National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007285541805171 Structurae structure ID: 20038209 OpenStreetMap way ID: 291836693 Reasonator Scholia Wikidocumentaries KML file WikiShootMe OpenStreetMap Search depicted

Photographs

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  Golden Gate from within the Temple Mount, in the 19th century.
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  Golden Gate in the 1920s
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  Golden Gate as seen from inside the Temple Mount
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  The Golden Gate from within the Mount

Artworks

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  Jerusalem mit Felsendom (Templum Salomonis), im Vordergrund der vermauerte Doppelbogen des Goldenen Tors, Venedig 1555 (Israelische Nationalbibliothek, Laor Collection)
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  Model of the Second Temple during the 1st century AD. The Shushan Gate is at the bottom.
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  Golden Gate of the Temple Shewing Part of the Ancient Walls (1842). Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Meeting at the Golden Gate (Holy Bible, NT)

Main category: Paintings of Meeting at the Golden Gate

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  Giotto di Bondone, Legend of St Joachim, Meeting at the Golden Gate, 1305 is an early depiction of the scene