Bab Tuma (Arabic,باب توما, meaning: "Saint Thomas’s Gate") is a borough of Old Damascus Syria and one of the gates in the historical walls of the city. It owes its name to Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. In the 16th century, following the occupation of Antioch and Alexandretta by Turkish troops, the borough of Bab Tuma became the seat of the Greek-Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches for the Northern Levant (Syria, Lebanon and Southern Turkey). It is also a an area for a neighborhood of the Syriac-Assyrian people which are common in this area.