Herod's Gate (Arabic: باب الزاهرة, Bab az-Zahra, Hebrew: שער הפרחים, romanized: Sha'ar HaPrakhim, lit. 'Flowers Gate') is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It connects the Muslim Quarter inside of the old city to the eponymic Palestinian neighbourhood of Bab az-Zahra, situated just outside.

The seven gates at the time of Suleiman were: Damascus Gate; Golden Gate; Herod's Gate; Jaffa Gate; Lions' Gate; Silwan Gate (also known as Mughrabi Gate, and now as Dung Gate); and Zion Gate.

We are at Herod’s gate, named by the Israelis as well as in Arabic – the flower gate. The gate is located in the northern wall of the old city, at the intersection of Sultan Suleiman and Salah Al-Din streets.

Jan 4, 2022 · Herod’s Gate (AKA Flowers Gate): Near the east corner of the north wall. Right outside the gate is a cemetery. No one wanted to live in an area known for a cemetery, so they changed the Arabic for “cemetery”—Sahirah—to Zahirah, which means “flowers.” Although it’s also known as “Herod’s Gate,” there was no gate there when ...

Herod’s Gate, also known as the Flowers Gate, is a northern entrance into the Old City, east of Damascus Gate. The gate’s name comes from Christian pilgrims in the Middle Ages who thought a nearby church was the palace of Herod Antipas, to whom Jesus was sent by Pontius Pilate.

Rather plain (and much less crowded) than the other Old City gates, Herod's Gate stands just 100m east of the point at which the Crusaders breached the city walls on 15 July 1099. The gate's name was derived from a mistaken belief held by 16th- and 17th-century pilgrims that a nearby building was at one time the palace of Herod Antipas.

Herod’s Gate is located on the eastern section of the north wall. It was constructed in 1539 AD by the Ottomans as part of Suleiman the Magnificent’s massive city wall and gate project. Prior to this, there was a gate located here as far back as at least the early Islamic period.

…wall: the New, Damascus, and Herod’s gates to the north, the St. Stephen’s (or Lion’s) Gate to the east, the Dung and Zion gates to the south, and the Jaffa Gate to the west. An eighth gate, the Golden Gate, to the east, remains sealed, however, for it is through…

This gate is also known as Herod’s Gate because it leads to the place where King Herod’s palace used to be. It is Also called the Sheep’s Gate due to the weekly sheep market that used to be held in the square outside the gate. Names: Flower Gate; Herod’s Gate; The Sheep’s Gate; Bab-a …

In fact, about the only major landmark in Jerusalem itself that does bear Herod's name is a modest gate in the Old City wall leading into the Muslim Quarter, a gate built about 1,600 years after the king's reign.