It was just 100m east of this gate that the Crusaders breached the city walls on 15 July 1099. The name was derived from a mistaken belief held by 16th- and 17th-century pilgrims that a nearby building was at one time the palace of Herod Antipas. In Hebrew the gate is called Sha’ar HaPrahim and in Arabic, Bab al-Zahra; both names mean Flower Gate.
