Editing Tower of David (section)

==Names==
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| image1            = Al Kala (the Citadel) and David's Tower on the 1865 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem Old City full map (cropped).jpg
| caption1          = 1865 [[Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem]]
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| image2            = El Qala and Davids Tower in the 1936 Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map.jpg
| caption2          = 1936 [[Survey of Palestine]]
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| footer            = The citadel with the label "David's Tower" appearing in artifacts from 1865 and 1936. The label "Tower of David" is now commonly used to refer to the Ottoman minaret on the south west side of the citadel (shown as a small red circle on the 1936 map).
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===Tower of David: Herodian tower===
The name ''Tower of David'' was first used for the Herodian tower in the 5th century{{Nbsp}}CE by the Byzantine Christians, who believed the site to be the palace of King [[David]].<ref name=Bahat/><ref name=Murphy/> They borrowed the name ''Tower of David'' from the [[Song of Songs]], attributed to [[Solomon]], King David's son, who wrote: "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men" (Song of Songs, 4:4).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Song of Songs 4:4 |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Songs%204:4&version=KJV |access-date=2024-12-07 |website=[[BibleGateway]] |language=en}}</ref>

===Arabic names===
An Arabic name of the massive Herodian-Mamluk northeast tower is the {{transliteration|ar|Burj al-Qalʾa}} ({{langx|ar|برج القلعة||lit=Citadel Tower|label=none}}).<ref>{{Cite web|last=إسرائيل|first=طاقم تايمز أوف|title=مبادرة لتكنولوجيا الواقع الإفتراضي في مختبر الإبتكار الجديد في متحف برج قلعة القدس|url=http://ar.timesofisrael.com/%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%83%d9%86%d9%88%d9%84%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b6%d9%8a-%d9%81/|access-date=2020-10-17|website=تايمز أوف إسرائيل|language=ar}}</ref>

During the Early Muslim and [[Ayyubid]] periods it was known in Arabic as {{transliteration|ar|Miḥrāb Dāwūd}}, {{literally|David's {{transliteration|ar|[[miḥrāb]]}} (prayer place)}}. Note that there is also another mihrab called {{transliteration|ar|Miḥrāb Dāwūd|italic=no}}, built into the inner side of the [[Southern Wall#Inside the Wall|Southern Wall]] of the [[Haram esh-Sharif]]/[[Temple Mount]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elad |first1=Amikam |title=Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship: Holy Places, Ceremonies, Pilgrimage |date=1995 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-10010-7 |page=137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CDz_yctbQVgC&pg=PA137 |quote= [[al-Suyūṭī]] […] regarding the location of Miḥrāb Dāwūd in his time [1470s]. 1. The Great Miḥrāb in the wall adjacent to the ''minbar'' inside [[Qibli Mosque|al-ʾAqṣā Mosque]]; 2. The Great Miḥrāb in the [[Southern Wall|southern wall of the Ḥaram]]; 3. In the citadel (al-Qalʾa) of Jerusalem. […] [[Mujīr ad-Dīn|Mujīr]] states that the Miḥrāb in the southern wall of the Ḥaram, near the “Cradle of Jesus”, is widely accepted as Miḥrāb Dāwūd.}}</ref>