Exploring Jerusalem’s Walls and Gates
The article discusses the history of the ancient walls of Jerusalem, which were built during the Canaanite era and subjected to destruction several times by invaders. The last destruction was by King Al-Ayyubi Al-Isa in 1226 CE, out of fear that it might be used as a base by the Crusaders. Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent reconstructed the wall, which features an almost irregular shape and includes 34 towers, among them the Halcyon Tower and the Sulfur Tower. The wall has seven open gates and four closed ones. As for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, it has ten main gates, five of which are closed. Some of the gates date back to the Umayyad period, with the gates distributed between the northern and western sides of the city and the eastern side of the mosque.
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