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Bab az-Zahra Cemetery

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Bab az-Zahra Cemetery

Bāb as-Sāhira Cemetery or al-Sahira Cemetery an Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem, a few meters north of the city wall's Bāb as-Sāhira (al- or es-Sahira, Herod's Gate). It was previously called the Mujahideen Cemetery. Along with Mamilla and Bāb ar-Raḥma Cemeteries, it includes graves for those in Salad

in's army who died in battle (for al-fatḥ aṣ-Ṣalāḥī, 'the triumph of Saladdin').

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