Bāb Ḥuṭṭa ( ar, باب حطة or , ) is a neighborhood in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem to the north of the

Haram al-Sharif The Temple Mount ( hbo, הַר הַבַּיִת, translit=Har haBayīt, label=Hebrew, lit=Mount of the House f the Holy}), also known as al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, lit. 'The Noble Sanctuary'), al-Aqsa Mosque compou ...

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Temple Mount The Temple Mount ( hbo, הַר הַבַּיִת, translit=Har haBayīt, label=Hebrew, lit=Mount of the House f the Holy}), also known as al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, lit. 'The Noble Sanctuary'), al-Aqsa Mosque compou ...

). The name literally means "Forgiveness (or Remission) Gate", referring to the Forgiveness Gate of the Haram compound, connected by Bāb Ḥuṭṭa Street.

History

In the late 15th century, Mujir ad-Din described it as one of the largest quarters in Jerusalem. A census taken by the Ottoman authority registered only Muslims in the quarter. At the beginning of the 20th century, the quarter had boundaries defined as follows: * North and east - the city walls between St Stephen's Gate and

Herod's Gate Herod's Gate ( ar, باب الزاهرة, Bab az-Zahra, ) 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 ju ...

. The northeast corner is the Stork Tower (Burj al-Laqlaq). * South - the north side of the Temple Mount. * West - Zawiyat el-Hunud Street, 'Aqabet er-Rahibat, Bab el-Ghawanima Street. In the 19th century, Jews were an increasing percentage of Jerusalem's population, and began to spread out of the Jewish Quarter into the Muslim Quarter. Jewish families settled in Bab al-Hutta by 1837.

Demographics

The neighborhood is considered one of the poorest areas in the Old City. It is home to the Dom Romani community of the Old City, known in Arabic as '' al-Nawar'', led by ''

mukhtar A mukhtar ( ar, مختار, mukhtār, chosen one; el, μουχτάρης) is a village chief in the Levant: "an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule". According to Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, the muk ...

'' Abed-Alhakim Mohammed Deeb Salim.

Danny Rubinstein Daniel "Danny" Rubinstein (born 1937) is an Israeli journalist and author. He previously worked for '' Haaretz'', where he was an Arab affairs analyst and a member of the editorial board. Biography Rubinstein was born in Jerusalem in 1937. He gre ...

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Haaretz. 2005Joseph B. Glass and Rassem Khamaisi. Report on the Socio-Economic Conditions in the Old City of Jerusalem. Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. p.4

References

{{Neighborhoods of Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem Nawar people Romani communities in Asia Romani in Israel Romani in the State of Palestine Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem)