Jerusalem - From St Stephen's Gate to the Citadel

West from St Stephen's Gate along St Mary's Gate Street in Jersalem, we pass on the right the Chapel of the Flagellation (1927) and the Chapel of the Condemnation, marking the sites of events in Christ's Passion, and come to the Ecce Homo Arch, where, according to an old tradition, Pilate uttered the words "Behold the man!" (John 19,5).

From the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jersalem a stepped lane to the right leads into Christian Quarter Street. At the north end of this street, at the corner of El-Khanqah Street (on right), is the El-Khanqah Mosque, which is believed to have originally been the palace of the Patriarch in Crusader times.

In the northern section of the wall on the east side of the Old City of Jerusalem is St Stephen's Gate, where according to Christian tradition St Stephen suffered martyrdom. It is also known as the Lion Gate after the reliefs of lions on the outside, and in Arabic is called Bab Sitti Maryam, Gate of the Virgin Mary.