title: Bab al-Sahira Cemetery
text: # Bab al-Sahira Cemetery
  
  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").
  
  