The Moroccan Quarter or Mughrabi Quarter (Arabic حارَة المَغارِبة Hārat al-Maghāriba) was an 800-year old neighborhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, bordering on the western wall of the Temple Mount on the east (including the Western Wall), the Old City walls on the south (including the Dung Gate), the Jewish Quarter to the west, and the Muslim Quarter to the north. Several schools and religious institutions were located there. The fifth and smallest of the old Jerusalem neighborhoods.
This 800 year quarter was largely demolished in 1967 by the Israeli government, after the Six-Day War, in order to make public access to the Wailing Wall easier. Today, most of the area has been fully absorbed into the Jewish Quarter and almost no trace of it is left.
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