Gates of Al-Aqsa

The Gates of the Temple Mount are the architectural portals that provide or historically provided access to the elevated sacred precinct in the Old City of Jerusalem known as the Temple Mount (Hebrew: Har HaBayit; Arabic: al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf "Haram al-Sharif (al-Quds)") ). Distributed along the perimeter walls of the platform, these gates date to multiple construction phases, principally from the Second Temple period and the early Islamic era, with subsequent modifications under Umayyad, Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman rule. Why we're running ads? The Madain Project is a very unique resource of Abrahamic History & Archaeology; reaching more than half a million readers a month. Until February 2021 all the operational and management costs were being paid by the volunteers working on the project. But, the increase in the userbase and the overall costs of servers and other services and equipment that are needed to remain live forced us to look for other avenues of inflow. We apologise about it. We apologise for the inconvenience that ads bring to your reading experience; we're working on a membership model for the Madain Project which will provide you with an absolute ads-free reading. Right now we need your help. Please Donate. As of now, we rely on donations from patrons like you to supplement the funding and keep the Madain Project website up and running. Your contribution will help us cover the costs of maintaining and improving our website, creating new educational content, and reaching even more enthusiasts around the world. Intext citation: ("Gates of the Temple Mount - Madain Project (en)", 2019); "Click to copy this citation.") MLA (8th Ed.) Gates of the Temple Mount. Madainproject.com , 2019, Accessed 15 July 2026.; "Click to copy this citation.") Intext citation: ("Gates of the Temple Mount - Madain Project (en)"); "Click to copy this citation.") Chicago "Gates of the Temple Mount." 2019. Madain Project . "Click to copy this citation.") Intext citation: ("Gates of the Temple Mount - Madain Project (en)"); "Click to copy this citation.") Note: Always review your references and make any necessary corrections before using. Pay attention to names, capitalization, and dates. If you need to mention authors, you can add " the Editors of the Madain Project ". The publication date shown in the citations reflects the original publication date; you may wanna check the article's history to see how it has evolved over time. Users who would like to make commercial use of Madain Project Material must contact us with a formal written request (i) identifying the MP Material to be used; and (ii) describing the proposed commercial use. Madain Project will review such requests and provide a written response. The Madain Project reserves the right to charge a fee for any approved commercial use of Madain Project Materials. The Madain Project has an extensive archive of photographs, which is only partially featured on our website. If you cannot find the photographs you're looking for; just send us an email detailing the required site, structure or even illustration. The archives department will definitely assist you in finding the best possible image for your new project. The breadcrumbs on the Madain Project website are of two types; first the geographical and second topical. The icons to the left of the breadcrumbs trail represent the current type of the breadcrumbs selected, for instance a denotes that the current trail selected is geographical and a shows the topical breadcrumbs. The keys of all the gates, except the Moroccans' Gate are with the Islamic Waqf Directorate, but they are opened only with the permission of the Israeli police who control access to al-Aqsa Mosque complex . The gates are listed here in anti-clockwise sequence, starting from the north-eastern corner of Masjid al-Aqsa compound. The Temple Mount, known in Arabic as the Haram as-Sharif , Currently there are 15 known gates leading in to the al-Aqsa Mosque c