Bāb as-Sāhira Cemetery or al-Sahira Cemetery an Islamic cemetery in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...
, a few meters north of the city wall's Bāb as-Sāhira (''al-'' or ''es-Sahira'',
Herod's Gate
Herod's Gate (, 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 just outside. It is a short d ...
). It was previously called the Mujahideen Cemetery.
Along with
Mamilla
Mamilla () is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem that was established in the late 19th century outside the Old City, west of the Jaffa Gate. Until 1948 it was a mixed Jewish–Arab business district. Between 1948 and 1967, it was located along the ...
and
Bāb ar-Raḥma Cemeteries, it includes graves for those in
Saladin
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, h ...
's army who died in battle (for ''al-fatḥ aṣ-Ṣalāḥī'', 'the triumph of Saladdin').
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Cemeteries in Jerusalem