The east gate of Jerusalem, where Peter and John healed a lame, is known as what?

The east gate mentioned in the account of Peter and John healing a lame man was called the Beautiful Gate.

The story appears in Acts 3: Peter and John encounter a man disabled from birth who is placed at the Temple gate to ask for alms. Peter says he has no silver or gold, but commands him to rise in the name of Jesus Christ. The man’s feet and ankles are strengthened, and he enters the Temple walking and praising God.

The gate belonged to the Second Temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. Its exact physical identity remains uncertain. Scholars have proposed the Nicanor Gate, while older traditions sometimes identify it with the Shushan Gate. The New Testament calls it “Beautiful,” based on the Greek term hōraia.

A common mix-up is the Golden Gate, also called the Gate of Mercy, which is an eastern gate of Jerusalem’s later Old City walls. The Beautiful Gate is specifically the Temple gate named in Acts, not a securely identified surviving city gate.