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Bab al-Sahira Cemetery

cemetery in Jerusalem

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ106207518 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bāb as-Sāhira Cemetery or al-Sahira Cemetery an Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem, a few meters north of the city wall's Bāb as-Sāhira (al- or es-Sahira, Herod's Gate). It was previously called the Mujahideen Cemetery.

Along with Mamilla and Bāb ar-Raḥma Cemeteries, it includes graves for those in Saladin's army who died in battle (for al-fatḥ aṣ-Ṣalāḥī, 'the triumph of Saladdin').

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The public source identifies “Bab al-Sahira Cemetery” as cemetery in Jerusalem. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around al-Sahira, Cemetery and cemetery.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with al-Sahira, Cemetery and cemetery providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106207518. Authority coordinates are 31.784, 35.232. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bab al-Sahira Cemetery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.