Gates of the Temple Mount

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem can be entered by eleven gates. In addition, there are five locked gates.

In the following list the gates are listed counterclockwise, to lead to the Temple Mount:

• 2.1 The Golden Gate
• 2.2 Single Gate
• 2.3 Huldah Gates
• 2.4 Barclay Gate
• 2.5 Warren Gate

Open gates

The open gates lead all in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Moroccans Gate in the Jewish, all other Muslim in the quarter.

Tribal Gate

The Tribal Gate ( Arabic: Bab al - Asbat ) is located at the northeast corner of the Temple Mount.

Remission Gate

The goal of remission (Arabic: Bab al- Hitta; Hebrew ša ʿ ar ha - Kohen ) is located on the north side.

Dark Gate

(Arabic: Bab al - Atim )

Bani Ghanim Gate

(Arabic: Bab al - Ghawanima )

Council Gate

(Arabic: Bab al - Majlis, Bab al- Nazer )

Iron Gate

(Arabic: Bab al - Hadid ), Hebrew: Shaar Barzel )

Gate of the Cotton Merchants

(Arabic: al - Bāb Qaṭṭānīn )

Ablution Gate

(Arabic: Bab al - Matarah )

Rest Gate

(Arabic: Bab al -Salam )

Chain Gate

(Arabic: Bab al - Silsileh, Hebrew: Shaar HaShalshelet )

Moroccans Gate

(Arabic: al - Bāb Maġāriba; Hebrew Ša ʿ ar ha- Mughrabīm, English: Morocco Gate ) The gate is named after the Moroccan city district, which existed up to the year 1967 in Jerusalem's Old City. It bordered directly on to the gate.

The door can only be reached via a temporary bridge and is the only access to the Temple Mount for non-Muslims.

Closed doors

Golden Gate

The Golden Gate (Hebrew: Sha'ar שער הרחמים haRachamim "Gate of Mercy ", Arabic: al- Bāb ad Dahabí ) is located on the east wall, making it also one of the gates in the old town. The gate was bricked right after the reconstruction by Sultan Suleiman.

Single Gate

Huldah Gates

Arabic: Bab al - Thulathe

Barclay Gate

Warren Gate

The Barclay Gate is below the Moroccan Gate. It is one of the original gates of the Temple Mount. It was named after James Thomas Barclay, a Christian missionary in Jerusalem, mid-19th century. He discovered it in 1848 from its inner side on the Temple Mount. Today, the space is closed, the access is permitted only with approval of the Waqf.

After the Six - Day War, the Israeli Ministry of Religious planned excavations at the southern wall of the Temple Mount, which should be carried out by Professor Benjamin Mazar, to expose the target. Both Jewish and Muslim religious leaders prevented this.