 The current walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were built 1537-1542 by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificient |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 Damascus Gate in the center of the northern wall of the Old City, Jerusalem |
 The Damascus Gate was built by the Ottomans on the site of an earlier 1st C. BC Roman gate |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 The Damascus Gate leads to the crowded bazaars of the Muslim and Christian Quarters of the Old City |
 Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem |
 Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem |
 The inside of Jaffa Gate, the western Ottoman gate of the old city, Jerusalem |
 Jaffa Gate, the main gate leading to West Jerusalem |
 The Ottoman City Walls along the western side of the Old City running north from Jaffa Gate |
 Looking south at the Citadel from the bridge leading from Jaffa Gate to the Mamilla Mall and West Jerusalem |
 Tower of David Museum, part of Jerusalem's Citadel |
 The Tower of David is now a museum of the history of the city of Jerusalem |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Hebrew memorial to the battle for the Old City during the 1948 War of Independence |
 Zion Gate at the western end of the southern wall to the Old City scarred by hundreds of bullets from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War |
 Zion Gate in the Ottoman city walls, Jerusalem |
 The Ottoman City Wall at Zion Gate (Bab An-nabi Daoud), Jerusalem |
 The IDF used Zion Gate during the 1967 War to capture the Old City |
 Bullet-ridden Zion Gate in the Ottoman city walls, Jerusalem |
 Inscription over the entrance to the Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem Citadel |
 Tower of David, Jerusalem Citadel, illuminated at night |
 The Citadel of Jerusalem at night |
 Minaret of the Citadel Mosque, Jerusalem |
 Jaffa Gate at night |
 Jaffa Gate at night |
 Jaffa Gate at night |
 Jaffa Gate seen from West Jerusalem (Mamilla Mall bridge) at night |
 Ottoman walls north of Jaffa Gate illuminated at night |
 Jerusalem City Wall near Jaffa Gate |
 Lions Gate road sign |
 Lion Gate, in the eastern gate to the Old City leading to the Mount of Olives |
 Lion Gate, Jerusalem, also called St. Stephen's Gate after the a Christian martyr who was stoned nearby |
 Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
 Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
 Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
 Arabic inscription just inside the Lion Gate with the date 1985 |
 Arabic inscription just inside the Lion Gate, Jerusalem |
 Herod's Gate in the northeast of the Old City |
 Herod's Gate - Bab al Zahra, Sha'ar HaPerahim |
 Ottoman city walls between Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate |
 Ottoman city walls between Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate |
 Damascus Gate |
 Entrance to the archaological site of the ancient Roman Plaza beneath Damascus Gate |
 The Roman Plaza beneath Damascus Gates |
 Original Roman paving stones beneath Damascus Gate |
 Artists impression of the Damascus Gate during the Roman period (2nd C. AD) |
 Roman Road, Jerusalem |
 Mosaic, Roman Plaza, Damascus Gate |
 Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 On top of Damascus Gate, Jerusalem |
 View of the bridge leading to Damascus Gate |
 Temple Mount and the Austrian Hospice from Damascus Gate |
 East Jerusalem from Damascus Gate |
 New Gate in the NW corner of the city wall |
 The northwest corner of the Ottoman city wall, Jerusalem |
 The Citadel and the western wall of the Old City |
 Southwest corner of the Old City wall, Jerusalem |
 Jaffa Gate and the Tower of David, Jerusalem |
 The Citadel of Jerusalem, former site of Herod's Palace, was rebuilt by Mamluk Sultan Malid al-Nasir in 1310 |
 The Citadel of Jerusalem was modified by Süleyman the Magnificient 1531-1538 |
 The Citadel of Jerusalem where the Turks surrendered to the British in 1917 ending 400 years of Ottoman rule |
 The minaret of the Citadel of Jerusalem was dedicated by the Turks in 1655 adjacent to the 14th C. mosque |
 The Citadel and city walls were dismantled by Sultan Malik al-Muattam in 1219 to keep them out of the Crusaders' hands |
 The Citadel of Jerusalem was rebuilt by the Mamluks in 1310 |
 In 1291, the Mamluks recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders who held the city 1099-1187 and 1229-1244 |
 Ottoman walls by Jaffa Gate |
 Citadel of Jerusalem, parts of which date to Herod the Great |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem from Jaffa Gate |
 David Street passing the Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Statue placed in an out-of-the-way spot along the city walls near the Citadel |
 Jerusalem Citadel |
 Jerusalem Citadel |
 Round Ottoman minaret, Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Western wall of the Old City |
 Western Wall of the the Old City of Jerusalem looking south |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem with the cylindrical Ottoman Minaret |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 Citadel of Jerusalem |
 View of the Western Wall of the Old City from the southwest corner, Jerusalem |
 Western wall of the Old City, Jerusalem |
 Southwest corner of the Old City |
 Southwest corner of the Old City, Jerusalem |
 View north along the western wall of the Old City |
 Southwest corner of the Old City wall, Jerusalem |
 Section of the southern wall of the Old City looking east towards the Mount of Olives, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem |
 Al Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount rising above the southern Ottoman Wall to the Old City |
 Part of the southern Ottoman Wall from Batei Mahseh St in the Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem |