Also known as Arched Gates, The Scales, Qanatir, Bawa'ik
thumb|A view of the southeastern looking inwards towards the Dome of the Rock Eight freestanding archways called al-Mawazin () are located at the top of the staircases leading to the platform (maṣṭaba) of the Dome of the Rock from the surrounding courtyard () below. Each archway consists of open arches supported by 2 to 4 columns, set between two pilasters.
thumb|A view of the southeastern looking inwards towards the Dome of the Rock Eight freestanding archways called al-Mawazin () are located at the top of the staircases leading to the platform (maṣṭaba) of the Dome of the Rock from the surrounding courtyard () below. Each archway consists of open arches supported by 2 to 4 columns, set between two pilasters.
One of the reasons mentioned for these doors is that the beauty of the Dome of the Rock should not appear right away, marking a separation between the city and the sacred place.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).