Cairo
This gate in the eastern wall of Cairo was built under Salah al-Din in the twelfth century. It was lost under rubble for centuries and excavated in 1998 with…
This gate in the eastern wall of Cairo was built under Salah al-Din in the twelfth century. It was lost under rubble for centuries and excavated in 1998 with long stretches of the Ayyubid wall when al-Azhar Park was created. The restored gate, with its stone towers, stands inside al-Azhar Park along the line of the old wall. Historians differ over whether its old name was Bab al-Barqiyya or Bab al-Jadid.