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باب السلسلة

ירושלים, State of Palestine

باب السلسلة

The Gate of the Chain or Chain Gate (Arabic: باب السلسلة, romanized: Bāb as-Silsila; Hebrew: שער השלשלת, romanized: Sha'ar HaShalshelet) is one half of a double gate, part of the gates to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was known early Islamic period

Bāb Daud, which means David's Gate. It was also known as Bāb al-Maḥkama (باب المحكمة), Gate of the Law Court, named after the nearby Maḥkama (Shari'a court) in the Tankiziyya building.

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