Dung Gate
Jerusalem, Palestine
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The Dung Gate is one of the eight gates of Jerusalem's Old City, built in 1537 as a small Ottoman postern gate in the Islamic architectural style. Also known as Bab al-Maghariba or the Gate of the Maghrebis, it remained modest in scale until the mid-twentieth century, when it was first widened for vehicular traffic in 1952 by Jordanian authorities and again enlarged in 1985 by Israeli authorities. Today it serves as the primary vehicle passage exiting the Old City and provides the main access for buses heading to the Western Wall.
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