Bab al-Rahma cemetery is located along the eastern wall of Al Aqsa Mosque in

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. It extends from Bab Al-Asbat (Lions' Gate) to the end of the

Al-Aqsa Mosque The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel is the main congregational mosque or Musalla, prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City (Jerusalem), Old City of Jerusalem. In some sources the building is also n ...

wall near the

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on the southern side. It has an area of about 23 acres. The Bab al-Rahma cemetery contains many graves of the Companions, most notably

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and Shadad ibn Aus, and on the graves of Mujahideen who participated in the conquest of Jerusalem during the

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i and

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conquests. The road to Lions' Gate separates the cemetery in two, Bab al-Rahma Cemetery to the south and Al-Asbat Gate Cemetery to the North. Since at least 2011, Palestinian sources assert that the Israeli government intends to convert part of the cemetery into a biblical garden. According to Israel's courts and Nature and Parks Authority, work near the cemetery is minor and no displacement of graves is allowed. Despite the restriction, burial activities continue with adding new graves on a regular basis, providing ongoing water contamination of the Gihon spring in the

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{{Commons category-inline Cemeteries in Jerusalem