It is composed of two doors: an outer one (currently the one located in the west of the facade) and an internal one facing Ajouzine Mosque.
In April 1885, the municipality built added a minaret with a clock, but it was destroyed later during the bombing raids of the second world war in 1942.
In 1904, the french minister Delcassé visited the medina and noticed offset alignment and the darkness of the alley linking the outer and inner entrances.
This allowed traffic, pedestrians and commercial goods being delivered by barrows and granted easier access to the medina.
During the country's independence period, two large entrances were added allowing unprecedented access to the medina for the vehicles in 1963: The level of pavement inside the gate is actually lower than that of the plaza outside.