Chain Gate (Jerusalem)
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"Chain Gate" redirects here. For the gate adjacent to Wells Cathedral, see Chain Gate, Wells.
The Gate of the Chain or Chain Gate (Arabic: باب السلسلة, Bāb as-Silsila) is one of the gates to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was known early Islamic period Bāb Daud, which means David's Gate.[1][2][3][4] It was also known as Bāb al-Maḥkama (باب المحكمة), Gate of the Law Court, named after the nearby Maḥkama (Shari'a court) in the Tankiziyya building.[5]