Tanners' Gate (Jerusalem)
Tanners' Gate (or Gate of the Tannery or Gate of the Tanneries) may refer to: * Bab ad-Debbagh Bab ad-Debbagh or Bab Debbagh () is one of the main eastern City gate, gates of the Medina quarter, medina (historic Walls of Marrakesh, walled city) of Marrakesh, Morocco. Description The gate is the northernmost of the two eastern gates of th ..., Marrakesh, Morocco * Tanners' Gate, Jerusalem: one of the Old City gates {{Disambig ...
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Bab Ad-Debbagh
Bab ad-Debbagh or Bab Debbagh () is one of the main eastern City gate, gates of the Medina quarter, medina (historic Walls of Marrakesh, walled city) of Marrakesh, Morocco. Description The gate is the northernmost of the two eastern gates of the medina. It dates back to around 1126 Common Era, CE when the Almoravid dynasty, Almoravid emir Ali ibn Yusuf built the first walls of the city. Its name means "Gate of the Tanners" and refers to the nearby Tanning (leather), tanneries which have been present here since the Almoravid period. It has the most complicated layout of any gate in the city: its passage Bent entrance, bends 5 times, in an almost S-like path, passing through two open-air courts and one elongated chamber with a Vault (architecture), vaulted ceiling. A staircase in the southeastern corner of the structure grants access to the roof of the gate. Scholars believe that only the central part of the gate (the vaulted chamber) dates back to the original Almoravid gate an ...
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