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Lions' Gate

one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
VisualArtwork city_gate Q129278

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
city gate
Inception
1538[9]
Country
Palestine[3]
Location
Old City of Jerusalem[6]
Part of
Masjid Al-Aqsa, Gates of Jerusalem[7][8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 31.781°, 35.237°[10]
Architectural style
Islamic architecture[5]
Commissioned by
Suleiman the Magnificent[4]
Date of official opening
1539[15]
Described by source
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11][12]
Different from
Tribes' Gate[16]
Has characteristic
tourist attraction[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Jerusalem[2]
Name in native language
بَابُ الْأَسْبَاطِ[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bāb al-Asbāṭ en Stephen's Gate en Saint Stephen's Gate en Lions' Gate ar باب الأسباط cs Lví brána de Stephanstor de Löwentor el Πύλη των Λεόντων (της Ιερουσαλήμ) es Puerta de los Leones fa دروازه اسباط fa دروازهٔ اسباط fr Porte aux Lions fr porte des Lions he שער האריות id Pintu Gerbang Domba it Porta dei Leoni ja ライオン門 nl Leeuwenpoort pl Brama Lwów
🔖 Identifiers · 21
Library of Congress authority ID
sh00001896
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
ISR-2015-Jerusalem-Lions' Gate.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
03351267n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
159031937
Cultural Objects Names Authority ID
700002866
Described at URL
madainproject.com, masjidalaqsa.net, alaqsa-archive.com, alaqsa-archive.com
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Lions-Gate
FAST ID
999346
Freebase ID
/m/0dpxky
GeoNames ID
6957225
Google Maps Customer ID
13283989987715289311
Historical Marker Database ID
220243
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IdRef ID
130730386
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
281377
Mapy.com ID
osm&id=1031987888
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007285541905171
OpenStreetMap way ID
288395731
Structurae structure ID
20038208
TripAdvisor ID
20374991
Wikimapia ID
850397
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Building", "LionsGate::8259d"]
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🔗 Connections
Belongs to 3
Old City of Jerusalem, Walls of Jerusalem, Gates of Jerusalem
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Instance of 3
tourist attraction, city gate, built structure
Part of 2
Masjid Al-Aqsa, Gates of Jerusalem
Architectural style 1
Islamic architecture
Commissioned by 1
Suleiman the Magnificent
Country 1
Palestine
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Jerusalem
Located in this place 1
Shooting of Iyad Halaq
Location 1
Old City of Jerusalem
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Summary

Lions' Gate is a city gate[1].

Body

Publication

Part of include Masjid Al-Aqsa[7], a religious complex[17], in Palestine[18] and Gates of Jerusalem[8], an architectural structure[19], in Palestine[20], founded in 1537[21].

Related Entities

Jerusalem Suleiman the Magnificent

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', '
    Category for the interior of the item → Category:Views from near Lions Gate
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for the interior of the item: Category:Views from near Lions Gate, Setting P7561 value"
  2. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → city gate
    Has characteristic → tourist attraction
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39782|batch #39782]]: Move Q570116 from P31 -> P1552"
  3. 26w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Palestine
    Architectural style → Islamic architecture
    Part of → Masjid Al-Aqsa, Gates of Jerusalem
    Different from → Tribes' Gate
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online"
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