Bab Kisan (Arabic: بَابُ كِيسَانَ, romanized: Bāb Kīsān, meaning "Kisan Gate") is one of the seven ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria. The gate, which is now located in the southeastern part of the Old City, was named in memory of a slave who became famous during a conquest by the Caliph Mu'awiya. The wall was built during the Roman era and was dedicated to Saturn. Bab Kisan may have been the escape route of St Paul.[1]
According to the Bible, Paul settled in Damascus after having claimed (Acts 9:1–9) to have witnessed a vision where Jesus was on a road to the city. After staying three years in Damascus, he went to live in the Nabataean kingdom (which he called "Arabia") for an unknown period, then came back to Damascus, which by this time was under Nabatean rule. After three more years (Gal. 1:17;20), he was forced to flee the city under the cover of night (Acts 9:23;25; 2 Cor. 11:32ff) after explosive reactions from Jews who opposed his teachings. He was lowered down from a window in the wall, down into a basket, and with the help of his Christian disciples, he made his escape at night and fled towards Jerusalem. Paul recounts in the Bible that it was through a window that he escaped from a certain death (2 Cor 11,32-33). That is said to be the one in the Chapel of Saint Paul.
^"Chapel of St. Paul (Bab Kisan), Damascus". Sacred Destinations. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
BabKisan (Arabic: بَابُ كِيسَانَ, romanized: BābKīsān, meaning "Kisan Gate") is one of the seven ancient city-gates of Damascus, Syria. The gate, which...
al-Abd Street near the former BabKisan (Kisan Gate). The chapel, consecrated in 1939, includes some stones from the BabKisan, which is believed to be the...
Christian quarter of the same name, Bab Sharqi ("eastern gate") in the east wall, the only one to retain its Roman plan BabKisan in the south-east, from which...
Bab Tuma (Gate of Thomas), dedicated to Venus. Bab Sharqi (The Eastern Gate), dedicated to the Sun. BabKisan (Kisan Gate), dedicated to Saturn. Bab al-Saghir...
Anatolia such as Derinkuyu Underground City (also see Cave monastery and BabKisan). Also noteworthy are the Church of St Peter in Antioch and the Cenacle...
Apostle). The building is at the end of the Street Called Straight near the Bab Sharqi (Eastern Gate). Archaeological excavations in 1921 found the remains...
Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam BabKisanBab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais Jaqmaq...
Yalbugha Churches Historic gates Bab al-Faradis Bab al-Jabiyah Bab al-Saghir Bab al-Salam BabKisanBab Sharqi Bab Tuma Souqs and caravanserais Jaqmaq...
Damascus and is located in the Christian quarter of Damascus, 100 m west of Bab Sharqi. Syriac Catholic Church Catholic Church in Syria Diana Darke, Syria...
Christianity. The ethnarch attempted to arrest Paul, but Paul escaped through BabKisan. (Acts 9:25 EU). In the First Jewish-Roman War, many Jews were killed...
see Cave monastery). Today the gates though which Paul escaped, named BabKisan, and mentioned in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, have been converted...
Milon K. Banerji Mirza Hameedullah Beg P. N. Bhagwati Raja Chelliah Chandra Kisan Daphtary Niren De C. D. Deshmukh Anthony Lancelot Dias Uma Shankar Dikshit...
Henry Every, an English pirate on board the Fancy, reached the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb,[citation needed] where he teamed up with five other pirate captains...
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Studies, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, in Kolkata, Bab – e – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Gate No. 7), Jamia Millia Islamia, A Central...
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