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Сигтунские врата. В 1187 новгородцы и карелы подошли к шведской столице Сигтуне, взяли ее и разрушили. Ворота города забрали и поместили на стену собора Святой Софии. Так они там и висят до сих пор.

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In the year 1187 during one of many wars between Novgorod and Kingdom of Sweden Novgorodian fleet with support of Karelians stormed Swedish capital of that time - Sigtuna. City was destroyed and it's gates taken to Novgorod.
Novgorodians respected their main cathedral - St. Sophie so much, that their battle-field cry was "Who is it against Novgorod the Great and Saint Sophia?!". So they placed gates of Sigtuna on the western wall of St-Sophie. So it was and so it is - gates are still there.
It's an early Medieval Ages metalwork, made in Deutsche city Magdeburg, XII century, so another name of the gates is "Magdeburg's Gates".