Cotton_Merchants'_Gate
Cotton Merchants' Gate
Gateway to Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem
The Cotton Merchants' Gate (Arabic: باب القطانين Bāb al-Qaṭṭānīn) is one of the gates of the al-Aqsa Compound (al-Ḥaram ash-Sharīf). It is by the western esplanade of the compound and leads to the Cotton Merchants' Market, a sūq, it is also called the Gate of the Cotton Merchants' Market (وباب سوق القطانين Bāb Sūq al-Qaṭṭānīn).[1][2] Its intricate eastern façade makes it one of the most recognizable and "the grandest of the Haram gates".[3]