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On the  map below you can see, that the old part of modern city of Jerusalem still has the remains of the ancient city wall. You can see 8 gates in the city wall, one of them ( New Gate) was constructed quite recently, in 1887, for more convenient access to Christian quarter. Other seven gates are the same age as the wall.

There in the Bible, in the Book of Nehemiah (3:6, 14, 15, 28; 12:37, 39) we read about  the old gate ,  the dung gate, the gate of the fountain, the horse gate, the water gate, the gate of Ephraim, the fish gate, the sheep gate and the prison gate. It is looks like that some of the gates had a couple of names. Today only the dung gate preserved its original name.


There on the place of the Old Jerusalem, on the place which is surrounded by the wall, we can see 5 districts: The Temple mount (on the right), where there two temples were located in ancient time, and also we see the Christian quarter, Moslem, Armenian and Jewish quarters. All of these quarters you can see on the photos below.

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Pretty much everything you see has been brand new. Jerusalem had a great part of it destroyed through the various wars, but in process of rebuilding, they took the opportunity to excavate some important areas, so new buildings and streets surround ruins thousands of years old.

The only part of Old Jerusalem, which was not reconstructed completely, is the Temple mount, where God had stopped Abraham from sacrificing of Isaac (Gen.22), and where there were the two temples.  This sacred site is surrounded by the wall also. Today there are Islam temple - the Dome of the Rock (on the photo it is the building with the gold dome roof) and the mosque Al Aqsa (the long building in the upper left).

                  

Though there is nothing left from the temples, the wall of the sacred site was reconstructed. As you see on the picture below, the Wailing wall (on the photo above it is in the left outside corner) has a modern layer of the brick on the top of the construction.

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This is the view with Dome of the Rock which situated on the Temple mount.

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So we can clear see that Old city of Jerusalem was in fact rebuilt anew.

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