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'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 Old City of Jerusalem that has ...
The Temple Mount refers to the elevated plaza above the Western Wall in Jerusalem that was the site of both of Judaism’s ancient temples. The site is also the third holiest in Islam (after Mecca and Medina) and has been a focal point of inter-religious tension for decades.
The Temple Mount is the name for the site of the Temple of Jerusalem, which was destroyed by the Romans on the 9th/10th of Av in 70 CE. It consists of a raised platform that, since the 7th century, has been home to the Islamic holy sites of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem (“Har Habayit” in Hebrew) is Judaism’s most sacred spot, the place where two Holy Temples stood and a third will stand in the Messianic era, may it happen very soon. Read on for 12 facts about this focal point of Jewish hopes, prayers, and longing throughout the millennia of our history.
In 19 B.C. the master-builder, King Herod the Great, began the most ambitious building project of his life—the rebuilding of the Temple and the Temple Mount in lavish style. Today’s Temple Mount boundaries still reflect this enlargement.
Today the Temple Mount, a walled compound within the Old City of Jerusalem, is the site of two magnificent structures: the Dome of the Rock to the north and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the south. In...
The Temple Mount is the trapezoid-shaped, walled-in area in the southeastern corner of the Old City of Jerusalem. The four walls surrounding it date back – at least in their lower parts – to the time of the Second Jewish Temple, built at the end of the first century BCE.
First, the Temple Mount is under Muslim authority and home to a sacred Islamic shrine, the Dome of the Rock. A Temple could not be built on that spot without destroying it. Second, not all Jews believe God has granted them authority to rebuild the Temple.
The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized: Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Located to the east of Jerusalem ’s historic Old City, the Temple Mount, once home to both Holy Temples, is the holiest place on earth. Although the Temple no longer stands, throughout the millennia Jews have gathered at the wall supporting the mountain’s western flank (“the Western Wall ”) to pray. The Temple Mount is a portal—the ...