Slide Title
Preview

Date
3-1980
Description
This photograph shows the south wall near the Jaffa Gate. The south wall borders the Jewish quarter in Old City Jerusalem. The present walls were built during the Ottoman empire in the sixteenth century, but the city has historicaly been fortified by walls since ancient times.
Rights
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Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Subject Headings
Walls--Jerusalem; Architecture -- Historicism in Architecture;
Country Name
Israel
City Name
Jerusalem
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Jerusalem: Old City, South Wall" (1980). Browse All. 740.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/740
Keywords
south walls, Jewish quarter, Jaffa gate, historic, Old City
Notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Jerusalem
(accessed 3 Nov 2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_%28Jerusalem%29
(accessed 3 Nov 2011)