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The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [1] is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem.
The 16th century walls of Jerusalem, with the Jerusalem Citadel minaret. The Walls of Jerusalem (Hebrew: חומות ירושלים, Arabic: أسوار القدس) surround the Old City of Jerusalem (approx. 1 km 2). In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the ruined city walls to be ...
The Western Wall Plaza is a large public square situated adjacent to the Western Wall in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was formed in 1967 as a result of the razing of the Mughrabi Quarter neighborhood at the very end of the Six-Day War .
The Western Wall and Western Wall Plaza. The Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: הרובע היהודי, HaRova HaYehudi, known colloquially to residents as HaRova, Arabic: حارة اليهود, Ḩārat al-Yahūd) lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, bordering the Armenian Quarter on the west ...
The Jewish quarter was initially located near the Gate of the Moors and Coponius Gate, in the southwestern part of the Western Wall. [23] Most of the housing property consisted of Muslim religious endowments, and was rented out to Jews. [24]
The cartography of Jerusalem prior to modern surveying techniques is focused only on the Old City, shown here.The expansion of the city from the mid-nineteenth century coincided with the production of the first modern map (see the Ordnance Survey map in the list below).
Western Wall. The Kotel compromise (or Western Wall compromise or Kotel plan or Western Wall plan, Hebrew: מתווה הכותל, Mitveh Ha'Kotel, lit."The Western Wall outline") is a compromise reached between orthodox and non-orthodox Jewish denominations, according to which the non-Orthodox "mixed" prayer area for men and women was supposed to be expanded in the southern part of the Western ...
The Cardo in Jerusalem originated during the Roman period, beginning at the Damascus Gate in the north extending southwards and splitting in two branches, the western branch leading up to the modern day Jewish quarter, and the eastern branch following the route of Ha-gay street towards the modern day Western Wall Plaza.