The Muslim Quarter ( Hebrew : הרובע המוסלמי , romanized : Ha-Rovah ha-Muslemi ; Arabic : حارة المسلمين , romanized : Ḥāraṫ al-Muslimīn ) is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem . It covers 31 hectares (77 acres) of the northeastern sector of the Old City. The quarter is the largest and most populous of the four quarters and extends from the Lions' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Damascus Gate — Western Wall route in the west. The Via Dolorosa starts in this quarter, a path Jesus Christ had to take when he was forced by Roman Soldiers, on his way to his crucifixion . The population of the Muslim Quarter is 22,000.
11-402: (Redirected from Arab Quarter ) Muslim Quarter may refer to: Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem) Xi'an Muslim Quarter Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Muslim Quarter . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
22-453: A much wider range of medieval groups. From the mid-19th century onwards, with the influx of Jewish immigrants, the areas of the city inhabited by Muslims began to decrease. The table below shows the evolution of the area today known as the "Muslim Quarter", from 1495 up until the modern system: The Muslim Quarter had a mixed population of Jews , Muslims and Christians until the 1929 Palestine riots . Some 60 Jewish families now live in
33-668: The Muslim Quarter. Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim is the largest yeshiva . In 2007, the Israeli government started funding the construction of The Flowers Gate development plan, the first Jewish settlement inside the Muslim Quarter since 1967. It would include 20 apartments and a synagogue. According to the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs , Israel has installed up to 500 closed-circuit cameras in
44-515: The Old City of Jerusalem This article lists the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem . The gates are visible on most old maps of Jerusalem over the last 1,500 years. During different periods, the city walls followed different outlines and had a varying number of gates. During the era of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291), Jerusalem had four gates, one on each side. The current walls of
55-599: The Old City of Jerusalem were built between 1533 and 1540 on orders of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent , who provided them with seven gates: six new gates were built, and the older and previously sealed Golden Gate was reopened (only to be re-sealed again after a few years). The seven gates at the time of Suleiman were, clockwise and by their current name: the Damascus Gate ; Herod's Gate ; Lions' Gate ; Golden Gate ; Dung Gate ; Zion Gate ; and Jaffa Gate . With
66-668: The Tribes, St. Mary's Gate (باب ستي مريم, Bab Sittna Maryam ) שער יפו باب الخليل Porta Davidi שער ציון باب النبي داود השער החדש الباب الجديد A smaller entrance, popularly known as the Tanners' Gate , has been opened for visitors after being discovered and unsealed during excavations in the 1990s. Sealed historic gates, other than the Golden Gate, comprise three that are at least partially preserved (the Single, Triple, and Double Gates in
77-484: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muslim_Quarter&oldid=997849746 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem) The Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem is bordered by the Christian Quarter to
88-507: The re-sealing of the Golden Gate already in Suleiman's time, the number of operational gates was only brought back to seven with the addition of the New Gate in 1887. שער הרחמים "Gate Of Mercy" باب الذهبي שער שכם "Nablus Gate" باب العمود שער הפרחים "Gate Of The Flowers" باب الساهرة שער האשפות "Gate Of Trash" باب المغاربة שער האריות باب الأسباط St. Stephen's Gate, Gate of
99-443: The re-sealing of the Golden Gate by Suleiman, the number of operational gates was only brought back to seven in 1887, with the addition of the New Gate . Until 1887, each gate was closed before sunset and opened at sunrise. The seven gates at the time of Suleiman were: Damascus Gate ; Golden Gate ; Herod's Gate ; Jaffa Gate ; Lions' Gate ; Silwan Gate (also known as Mughrabi Gate, and now as Dung Gate) ; and Zion Gate . After
110-938: The three non-Jewish quarters (Muslim, Christian and Armenian). Jewish landmarks include the Kotel Katan or Little Western Wall , and the Western Wall Tunnels , which run below the neighborhood along the Western Wall . There are many Roman and Crusader remains in the quarter. The first seven Stations of the Cross on Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross) are located there. [REDACTED] Media related to Muslim Quarter, Jerusalem at Wikimedia Commons Gates 1. Jaffa 2. Zion 3. Dung 4. Golden 5. Lions 6. Herod 7. Damascus 8. New ( Double, Single, Tanners ' ) Al-Mawazin Gates of
121-804: The west, the Jewish Quarter to the south, and the Armenian Quarter to the southeast. The old city walls border the Quater from the north. The convention of a "Muslim Quarter", in what was then a Muslim -majority city, may have originated in its current form in the 1841 British Royal Engineers map of Jerusalem , or at least Reverend George Williams ' subsequent labelling of it. The city had previously been divided into many more harat ( Arabic : حارَة , romanized : Hārat : "quarters", "neighborhoods", "districts" or "areas", see wikt:حارة ). The city had previously been considered in sections relating to
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