Bab al-Ahmar () meaning the ''Red Gate'', was one of the nine historical gates of the Ancient City of

Aleppo Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

. The name was derived from the village of al-Hamr () as the gate was leading to the village at the eastern suburbs of ancient Aleppo.

History

The gate was built in the eastern part of old Aleppo in the first half of the 13th century, during the reign of the

Ayyubid The Ayyubid dynasty (), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultan of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate of Egyp ...

emir of Aleppo al-Aziz Muhammad. It was renovated during the rule of the

Mamluk Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-so ...

sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri at the beginning of the 16th century. The gate was completely ruined in the 1830s by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt during his campaign in Syria against the Ottomans between 1831 and 1833. in 1834, the stones of the gate were used to build the Ibrahim Pasha military barracks (the current Aleppo Citadel Museum) in the Citadel of Aleppo.Aleppo gates
/ref> The famous Hammam Bab al-Ahmar is located near the gate within the historic walls of the ancient city. It was completely ruined during the Ottoman rule over Syria.

References

Ayyubid architecture in Syria Ziyarat Ahmar 13th-century establishments in the Ayyubid Sultanate {{Islam-stub