The current walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were built 1537-1542 by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificient |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
Damascus Gate in the center of the northern wall of the Old City, Jerusalem |
The Damascus Gate was built by the Ottomans on the site of an earlier 1st C. BC Roman gate |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
The Damascus Gate leads to the crowded bazaars of the Muslim and Christian Quarters of the Old City |
Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem |
Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem |
The inside of Jaffa Gate, the western Ottoman gate of the old city, Jerusalem |
Jaffa Gate, the main gate leading to West Jerusalem |
The Ottoman City Walls along the western side of the Old City running north from Jaffa Gate |
Looking south at the Citadel from the bridge leading from Jaffa Gate to the Mamilla Mall and West Jerusalem |
Tower of David Museum, part of Jerusalem's Citadel |
The Tower of David is now a museum of the history of the city of Jerusalem |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
Hebrew memorial to the battle for the Old City during the 1948 War of Independence |
Zion Gate at the western end of the southern wall to the Old City scarred by hundreds of bullets from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War |
Zion Gate in the Ottoman city walls, Jerusalem |
The Ottoman City Wall at Zion Gate (Bab An-nabi Daoud), Jerusalem |
The IDF used Zion Gate during the 1967 War to capture the Old City |
Bullet-ridden Zion Gate in the Ottoman city walls, Jerusalem |
Inscription over the entrance to the Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem Citadel |
Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel, illuminated at night |
The Citadel of Jerusalem at night |
Minaret of the Citadel Mosque, Jerusalem |
Jaffa Gate at night |
Jaffa Gate at night |
Jaffa Gate at night |
Jaffa Gate seen from West Jerusalem (Mamilla Mall bridge) at night |
Ottoman walls north of Jaffa Gate illuminated at night |
Jerusalem City Wall near Jaffa Gate |
Lions Gate road sign |
Lion Gate, in the eastern gate to the Old City leading to the Mount of Olives |
Lion Gate, Jerusalem, also called St. Stephen's Gate after the a Christian martyr who was stoned nearby |
Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
Arabic inscription just inside the Lion Gate with the date 1985 |
Arabic inscription just inside the Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
Herod's Gate in the northeast of the Old City |
Herod's Gate - Bab al Zahra, Sha'ar HaPerahim |
Ottoman city walls between Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate |
Ottoman city walls between Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate |
Damascus Gate |
Entrance to the archaological site of the ancient Roman Plaza beneath Damascus Gate |
The Roman Plaza beneath Damascus Gates |
Original Roman paving stones beneath Damascus Gate |
Artists impression of the Damascus Gate during the Roman period (2nd C. AD) |
Roman Road, Jerusalem |
Mosaic, Roman Plaza, Damascus Gate |
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
On top of Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
View of the bridge leading to Damascus Gate |
Temple Mount and the Austrian Hospice from Damascus Gate |
East Jerusalem from Damascus Gate |
New Gate in the NW corner of the city wall |
The northwest corner of the Ottoman city wall, Jerusalem |
The Citadel and the western wall of the Old City |
Southwest corner of the Old City wall, Jerusalem |
Jaffa Gate and the Tower of David, Jerusalem |
The Citadel of Jerusalem, former site of Herod's Palace, was rebuilt by Mamluk Sultan Malid al-Nasir in 1310 |
The Citadel of Jerusalem was modified by Süleyman the Magnificient 1531-1538 |
The Citadel of Jerusalem where the Turks surrendered to the British in 1917 ending 400 years of Ottoman rule |
The minaret of the Citadel of Jerusalem was dedicated by the Turks in 1655 adjacent to the 14th C. mosque |
The Citadel and city walls were dismantled by Sultan Malik al-Muattam in 1219 to keep them out of the Crusaders' hands |
The Citadel of Jerusalem was rebuilt by the Mamluks in 1310 |
In 1291, the Mamluks recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders who held the city 1099-1187 and 1229-1244 |
Ottoman walls by Jaffa Gate |
Citadel of Jerusalem, parts of which date to Herod the Great |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem from Jaffa Gate |
David Street passing the Citadel of Jerusalem |
Statue placed in an out-of-the-way spot along the city walls near the Citadel |
Jerusalem Citadel |
Jerusalem Citadel |
Round Ottoman minaret, Citadel of Jerusalem |
Western wall of the Old City |
Western Wall of the the Old City of Jerusalem looking south |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem with the cylindrical Ottoman Minaret |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
Citadel of Jerusalem |
View of the Western Wall of the Old City from the southwest corner, Jerusalem |
Western wall of the Old City, Jerusalem |
Southwest corner of the Old City |
Southwest corner of the Old City, Jerusalem |
View north along the western wall of the Old City |
Southwest corner of the Old City wall, Jerusalem |
Section of the southern wall of the Old City looking east towards the Mount of Olives, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem |
Al Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount rising above the southern Ottoman Wall to the Old City |
Part of the southern Ottoman Wall from Batei Mahseh St in the Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem |