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The Western Wall Tunnel (Hebrew: מנהרת הכותל, translit. : Minharat Hakotel ) is a tunnel exposing the Western Wall slightly north from where the traditional, open-air prayer site ends and up to the Wall's northern end.
A man and a woman praying at the Little Western Wall. The Little Western Wall, also known as HaKotel HaKatan (Hebrew: הכותל הקטן) or just Kotel Katan, Kleiner Koisel (Yiddish for "Small Kotel/Wall"), the Small, or Little Kotel, is a Jewish religious site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem near the Iron Gate to the Temple Mount. [1]
Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]). In a Jewish religious context, the term Western Wall and its variations is used in ...
The stone is located in a section of the Western Wall (in the broader meaning of the term) north of Wilson's Arch, below ground level, and can be accessed through the Western Wall tunnels. It is part of the "Great Course ", a name used by the WWHF for the tallest and longest course (layer of stones) of the Western Wall. [ 1 ]
A tunnel under Christ Church near the Jaffa Gate was discovered in the 1840s, during construction of Christ Church. In 2001, Rafael Lewis explored this tunnel, and which he conjectured was part of the upper aqueduct system that carried water eastward towards the Temple Mount and that it was probably connected to the cisterns that were under ...
Wilson's Arch (Hebrew: קשת וילסון, romanized: Keshet Vilson) is the modern name for an ancient stone arch in Jerusalem, the first in a row of arches that supported a large bridge connecting the Herodian Temple Mount with the Upper City on the opposite Western Hill.
The Southern Wall is 922 feet (281 m) in length, and which the historian Josephus equates as being equal to the length of one furlong (Greek: stadion). [1] Herod's southern extension of the Temple Mount is clearly visible from the east, standing on the Mount of Olives or to a visitor standing on top of the Temple mount as a slight change in the plane of the eastern wall, the so-called ...
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 ...