Jaffa Gate

The Jaffa Gate and the Tower of David.

Jaffa Gate (Hebrew: שער יפוcode: he is deprecated , Sha'ar Yafo; Arabic: باب الخليل, Bab el-Khalil, "Gate of the Friend"; also Bab Mihrab Daud, "Gate of the Prayer Niche of David"; also called David's Gate) is a stone archway in the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is along one of the main roads that connects the western part of the city to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount above him.

The plaza of the Jaffa Gate replaced a tall Roman pillar inside the Damascus Gate, which was used as the starting point for measurements to other cities in Palestine. It later became the starting point used to measure the distances to other countries. The Tower of David is a structure of the citadel, and is used today as the History of Jerusalem Museum.

The road fro Jaffa Gate to the Western Wall called once the Capital street.

Structures in Jaffa Gate

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  the Tower of David (the Citadel)

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  Kilometre Zero of Israel

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  The Turkish Clock Tower (demolished)

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  the Bezalel Pavilion (demolished)

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  the Turkish-Ottoman Sebil (demolished)

Jaffa Gate Media

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  Old City Gates

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  Inscription on the wall adjacent to, and north of, the outer gate, praising Allah and his servant, Ibrahim (1854 photograph)

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  Jaffa Gate from northwest (1891)

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  Conrad Schick's diagram of the breach in the wall of Jerusalem at Jaffa Gate made in 1898 for the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm

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  These two Ottoman tombs are attributed by a baseless local legend to the architects of the Old City walls

• Inside Jaffa Gate (video).

Other websites

• Jaffa Gate virtual tour Archived 2008-01-16 at the Wayback Machine