Damascus Gate
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Damascus Gate
The principal gate in the northern wall of the modern Old City of Jerusalem. Constructed ca. 1538–39 c.e. by Suleiman the Magnificent, it leads to the major north-south street, the Cardo Maximus of the Roman city Aelia Capitolina. The name derives from the early Christian tradition that Paul departed from the city by this gate en route to Damascus (Acts 9). Its Arabic name is Bab el-˓Amud (“Gate of the Column”), indicating the column erected there by Hadrian and still standing when the Arabs captured the city in 638.
Freedman, D. N., Myers, A. C., & Beck, A. B. (2000). Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (309). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans.
