Golden Gate
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13"x19" signed print: archival pigmented inks on matte watercolor paper Many traditions surround this landmark in the East Wall. Jews believe it is an original Temple gate, possibly used for the ritual of the Red Heifer (Num. 19:1-10). For Christians, it is where Jesus entered on Palm Sunday (Jn. 12:13), and where he will enter at the Second Coming; and where Paul healed the cripple (Acts 3:1-6). Muslims believe the Just will enter here on Judgment Day, hence the adjacent graves. Muslims call the left gate the Gate of Mercy; the right, the Gate of Repentance. Thought it may be Byzantine, the architecture suggests it was built in ca. 685 as part of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik's attempts to restore the Temple. The gate was blocked in the eight century when non-Muslims were denied access to the Haram. The Crusaders opened it twice a year: on Palm Sunday and on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Muslim tradition holds that a Christian conqueror will ride through the gate; thus, they keep it blocked. The double-arched facade is ca. 18 meters wide, supported by pilasters with late-Roman or Byzantine Corinthian capitals. Other ornamentation is from the sixteenth century.