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Damascus Gate is the most ornate of the gates set into Jerusalem’s Old City walls, rebuilt by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1537. Discussed here as part of a tour of Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem, with the earlier Roman gate foundations still visible beneath the entrance.

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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
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Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem

A field-trip day tracing the Roman and Byzantine layers of Jerusalem: Zedekiah's Cave by the Damascus Gate, the arches at Alexander Nevsky, the Byzantine corners of the Holy Sepulchre, the cardo, and the ruins of the Nea Church.

Dec 2013 · 3 minute read
Zedekiah's Cave, Jerusalem Damascus Gate, Jerusalem Roman or Byzantine arch in the Alexander Nevsky Church, Jerusalem Arches of Monomachos together with later crusader arches in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The upper Byzantine cardo, Jerusalem Apse of the Nea Church
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