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The Israelite Tower (Hebrew: המגדל הישראלי) is an archaeological site in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter. The site features remains of the city's Iron Age fortifications which were later incorporated into the Hasmonean city walls.
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ , Modern: Bēt haMīqdaš, Tiberian: Bēṯ hamMīqdāš; Arabic: بيت المقدس, Bayt al-Maqdis), refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple ...
The following is a list of temples associated with the Jewish religion throughout its history and development, including Yahwism.While in the modern day, Rabbinic Jews will refer to "The Temple", and state that temples other than the Jerusalem temple, especially outside Israel, [1] are invalid, during the era in which Judaism had temples, multiple existed concurrently.
The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har haBayīt, lit. 'Temple Mount'), also known as The Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or simply al-Aqsa (/ æ l ˈ æ k s ə /; The Furthest Mosque المسجد الأقصى, al-Masjid al-Aqṣā), [2] and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, [3] [4] is a hill in the ...
The Park is located in the northern Ophel of Jerusalem at the foot of the Temple Mount's Southern Wall.It contains archaeological finds from the Bronze Age in 3,000 BC up to the Ottoman Period in the early 20th century.
The term First Temple is customarily used to describe the Temple of the pre-exilic period, which is thought to have been destroyed by the Babylonian conquest. It is described in the Bible as having been built by King Solomon and is understood to have been constructed with its Holy of Holies centered on a stone hilltop now known as the Foundation Stone which had been a traditional focus of ...
The Israelite temple at Tel Arad in Judah, 10th to 8th/7th century BCE [116] and possibly dedicated to Yahweh [117] and Asherah. [118] The Jewish temple at Elephantine in Egypt, already standing in 525 BCE [119] The Israelite temple at Tel Motza, c. 750 BCE discovered in 2012 a few kilometres west of Jerusalem.
Jewish Temple at Elephantine, used by Jews in Egypt until the 4th century BCE Jewish Temple at Leontopolis , used by Jews in Egypt between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century CE House of Yahweh , referring to Israelite/Jewish places of worship in biblical and extrabiblical texts