Damascus Gate

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city gate historic site tourist attraction

Damascus Gate is one of the main historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, notable for its monumental Ottoman-era architecture and bustling surrounding marketplace.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Damascus Gate canonical	13
Nablus Gate	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city gate ⓘ historic site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Bab al-Amud ⓘ Gate of the Column ⓘ Damascus Gate ⓘ surface form: Nablus Gate Sha'ar Shechem ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Ottoman architecture ⓘ
connectsTo	road to Damascus ⓘ road to Nablus ⓘ
country	Israel ⓘ
facingDirection	north ⓘ
hasCoordinateLocation	31.783°N 35.230°E ⓘ
hasCulturalSignificanceFor	Christianity ⓘ surface form: Christians Jews ⓘ Muslims ⓘ
hasHeritageDesignation	UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site component
hasPart	battlements ⓘ central arched entrance ⓘ flanking towers ⓘ inner gate passage ⓘ outer plaza ⓘ stairways ⓘ
hasPredecessor	Byzantine gate ⓘ Roman gate of Aelia Capitolina ⓘ
heritageDesignationOf	Old City of Jerusalem UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ surface form: Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
imageDepicts	fortified gate with crenellated walls ⓘ
inception	1537 ⓘ
isSubjectOf	historical and archaeological studies ⓘ tourist guides to Jerusalem ⓘ
locatedIn	Israel ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Middle East ⓘ Old City of Jerusalem UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ surface form: Old City of Jerusalem
locatedOn	northern wall of the Old City ⓘ
materialUsed	stone ⓘ
namedAfter	Damascus ⓘ
near	Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem ⓘ surface form: Christian Quarter of Jerusalem Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem ⓘ surface form: Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem
numberOfEntrances	3 ⓘ
partOf	walls of the Old City of Jerusalem ⓘ surface form: Walls of Jerusalem
rebuiltBy	Ottoman Empire ⓘ
rebuiltDuring	reign of Suleiman the Magnificent ⓘ
significantFor	commercial activity ⓘ public gatherings ⓘ religious pilgrims ⓘ urban access to Old City ⓘ
surroundedBy	marketplace ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ
usedFor	market access ⓘ pedestrian traffic ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old City of Jerusalem UNESCO World Heritage Site → hasGate → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Herod's Gate → near → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Muslim Quarter → hasLandmark → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Muslim Quarter → hasGateAccess → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Damascus Gate → alsoKnownAs → Damascus Gate ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nablus Gate

Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem → contains → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Robert Stone → notableWork → Damascus Gate ⓘ

1920 Nebi Musa riots → location → Damascus Gate ⓘ

walls of the Old City of Jerusalem → hasPart → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Old City walls → hasPart → Damascus Gate ⓘ

subject surface form: Old City walls of Jerusalem

Garden Tomb → locatedNorthOf → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family → locatedNear → Damascus Gate ⓘ

El-Wad Street → connectsTo → Damascus Gate ⓘ

Gate of the Column → alternateName → Damascus Gate ⓘ