Doors

Ornate door portal in a narrow alley in Marrakesh medina (old city).

Doors in medressa Ben Youssef. Marrakesh.

A gate leading to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab.

Arched passage in Marrakesh medina (old city).

Door. Marrakesh medina (old city).

Local men resting near El Mansour Mosque, Marrakesh.

Green door in a side alley in Marrakesh.

View to the courtyard of Kun lam temple.

Blue door in yellow wall. Old Ankara.

Door from the medina (old city) in Essaouira.

Door from the medina (old city) in Essaouira.

Street with colorful door portals in the medina (old city) of Essaouira.

Door from the old Jewish quarter (mellah) in Fez.

Golden door of the Royal Palace of Fez (Dar el Makhzen).

Ornate portal and door of the Royal Palace of Fez (Dar el Makhzen).

Detail of the pattern adorning brass door of the Royal Palace of Fez (Dar el Makhzen).

Delicate and intricate patterns on the portal of the Royal Palace of Fez (Dar el Makhzen).

The Blue Gate (Bab Bou Jeloud) is the main entrance leading to the walled medina (old city) in Fez.

Old door in an antique shop in Fez.

Old lady sitting on the door threshold in the old city (medina) in Meknes.

Intricate pattern of the door portal. Meknes.

Blue door and the nearby resident. Moulay Idriss.

Entrance to a restaurant in The Palace Downtown Dubai hotel.

Door and window in the village of Luxor.

Swastika - an ancient Indian symbol of happiness. Sikkim.

Partial view of one of the entrance gates to the palace of maharaja in Mysore, Karnataka.

A view through an entrance gate to the palace of maharaja in Mysore, Karnataka.

Old door in a narrow street. Busher on the Persian Gulf.

Damascus Gate (Arabic: باب العامود‎, Bab Alamud , Hebrew: שַׁעַר שְׁכֶם, Sha'ar Sh'khem) - one of the main entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem.

Door on the courtyard of the Ethiopian Coptic Church in Jerusalem.

Arched door on the courtyard of the Ethiopian Coptic Church in Jerusalem.

Green door near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem,

Richly decorated door of Hor Phakeo temple (now museum). Vientiane.

Man reading newspaper under the side door of St. Dominc church built in 1828.

Door. Bahla.

Door. Old Muscat.

Door and steps. Mutrah, Muscat.

Main gate and the entrance to the palace of Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman.

Wooden door of the reconstructed market (souq) in Nizwah.

Door leading to the reconstructed market (souq) in Nizwah.

Elaborated detail of the temple door in Bangkok.

Green door and matching window in the old part of Ankara.

Entrance to the Potala Palace from one of the inner courtyards of the Palace. Lhasa.

Richly decorated entrance to one of the many shrines of the Kum Bum pagoda in Gyantse.

Beautiful door and entrance portal in the maharaja's palace in Jaipur.

Colorful doors. Essaouira.

A door next to the City God Temple. Tainan.

A door to a house in the residential district of Beyoglu on the northern side of Golden Horn. Istanbul.

Islamic inion made of famous Iznik tiles over the door in the harem complex of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

Porta de Santiago - the only surviving gate of A Famosa, the Portuguese fortress built in Malacca in 1511.

Entrance arcades of the Cheong Fat Tze Mansion (Blue Mansion). Georgetown, Penang.

Old gate in the maze of narrow streets near Ganges river in Varanasi.

Indian women in front of a beautiful blue door on a narrow street in Varanasi.

Detail of the facade on Elizabetes street 33, Riga.

In front of the old doors, Riga.

Door. Bukhara.

Entrance portal (iwan) of the of the Abdulaziz Khan Madrasah built in 1652 by order of the Ashtarkhanid ruler Abdulaziz Khan. Bukhara.

Concrete doors in Bunk'art 1 - a cold war era bunker on the outskirts of Tirana built for the communist dictator Enver Hoxha and the top leaders of the Albanian regime.

Doorman in traditional Bahraini outfit in front of the entrance to Raffles Al Areen Palace Bahrain.

Detail of the door. Toledo.

Ornate door of the common hall of the beach portion of the Nirvana Laut hotel on Karimunjawa island.

Royal coat of arms on the door of the Diamond Jubilee State Coach. Royal Mews, London.

Old door in the restored residential compound open for visitors. Bukchon Hanok Village, Seoul.

Richly decorated entrance to the compound of the Great Mosque in Cordoba.

Green paint peeling off the old wooden door. Tao O village on Lantau Island.

Basilian Monastery Gate, built in the late Baroque and Rococo architectural style, in the Old Town of Vilnius.

Shoes left by the sumo wrestlers and guests in the tiny entrance space to the Miyagino stable (heya) in Ryogoku district of Tokyo.

One of many ornate gates in Huwon Garden in Seoul.

Eastern gate of the Donghwamun courtyard leading towards the main part of the Changdeokgung Palace in Seoul.

Door within the Changdeokgung Palace complex in Seoul.

Wrought-iron gates of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg which houses the State Hermitage Museum.

Golden Russian Imperial double-headed eagle, which is the coat of arms of Russia, located on the ornate wrought-iron gates of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Red shutters of the Red Dot Traffic building at 28 Maxwell street - a former traffic police headquarters' building housing how Red Dot Design Museum.

An entrance to one of the hundreds of Madrid restaurants.

Traditional Japanese entrance to a restaurant in Kyoto.

Gilded door to a Gold Drawing Room of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Archway of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic building, at Aušros Vartų g. 5, Vilnius.

Ornate interior door within the Winter Palace (now part of the Hermitage Museum) in St. Petersburg.

Detail of a door in Shwenandaw monastery in Mandalay.

Ornate interior door, part of the decoration in the Leonardo da Vinci Hall in the Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg.

Colorful doors of a waterfront house in Marsaxlokk converted to a hotel.

Entrance to a house in Flores.

Entrance gate to Hong Kong Disneyland.

A door in Victoria, Gozo Island.

One of the city walls' gates. Segovia.

A magnificent romanesque portal at the entrance to Museo de Santa Cruz in Toledo.

Green door. Wellington, North Island.

A door opening of a Hindu temple in My Son - the religious and burial complex built by the Hindu rulers of Champa kingdom between 4th and 14th century AD.

Entrance gate to Warwick Castle with portcullis, a heavy, vertically sliding wooden or iron grille protecting the gate and typical for medi castles.

Entrance to the former St Aldate's Post Office on St Aldate's street, directly opposite Christ Church College in Oxford.

Royal Doors of the iconostasis inside the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg.

The entrance gate to the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta. Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta on Aventine Hill, Rome.

A gate in the mausoleum complex of emperor Tu Duc near Hue.

A view of the dome of the St. Peter's Cathedral through the keyhole in the door of the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta, dubbed "the most beautiful hole in Rome". Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta on Aventine Hill.

A keyhole in the door of the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta dubbed "the most beautifule hole in Rome". Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta on Aventine Hill.