🔎 Herod’s Temple | Second Temple | Nicanor Gate in Jerusalem: cross stitch pattern, cross stitch pattern for download, printable cross stitch, printable PDF pattern.
🔔 Only digital format, instant download.
★ Pattern specification for different types of fabric
• Fabric: Aida.
• Colors: 18. Palette: DMC.
• Size: 185 × 161 stitches.
• Finished size will vary depending on the count fabric/canvas you choose.
✔ 14 count ⇒ Size: 13.21 × 11.5 inches | 33.55 × 29.21 cm
✔ 16 count ⇒ Size: 11.56 × 10.06 inches | 29.37 × 25.56 cm
✔ 18 count ⇒ Size: 10.28 × 8.94 inches | 26.11 × 22.71 cm
💾 5 PDF includes:
1. FIVE SCHEMES (Fabric: 16 count Navy Blue Aida):
• Color Blocks with Symbols.
• Color Symbols.
• Color Blocks.
• Color Crosses.
• Black and White Symbols.
2. Color photo for reference.
3. List of DMC thread colors (instruction and key section).
🔔 Please note this is a digital pattern only! No fabric, floss, or other materials are included in the listing.
⛔ Returns & exchanges. This is a digital product and I don’t accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations.
❤ Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
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✎ Reference Information.
🔎 The Nicanor Gate stood in front of Herod’s Temple. It gave access from the Court of the Women to the Temple Courts. In front of this gate were fifteen semi-circular steps on which Levites sang the fifteen “Psalms of the Steps” (Psalms 120-134 of Degrees or Ascents). The gold-covered Temple towered above all other buildings.
🔎 The Second Temple was the Jewish holy temple which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced Solomon’s Temple (the First Temple), which was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE, when Jerusalem was conquered and part of the population of the Kingdom of Judah was taken into exile to Babylon.
🔎 On the west side of the Court of the Women were fifteen steps that led up to the Gate of Nicanor, where Mary brought the Baby Jesus at the time of His presentation (Luke 2:22–24). Passing through the Nicanor Gate would lead one into the Court of Israel, accessible only to ceremonially clean Jewish men.
🔎 The court of the women was the outer forecourt of the Temples in Jerusalem into which women were permitted to enter. The court was also known as the “middle court,” as it stood between the Court of the Gentiles and the court of Israel, i.e. the court of the men.
