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The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har haBayīt, lit. 'Temple Mount'), also known as the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, [2] [3] is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem that has been venerated as a holy site for thousands of years, including in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Throughout history, and in the present day, there have been various restrictions on entering the Temple Mount (known to Muslims as Al-Aqsa), which is a holy place for Muslims, Jews, and Christians. At present, the Government of Israel controls access to the Temple Mount, which is under the management of the Jordan-based Jerusalem Islamic Waqf.
The self-proclaimed "Temple Mount Administration" (Hebrew: מינהלת הר הבית, Minhelet Har-HaBait) is a far-right activist group led by Israeli rabbi Shimshon Elboin whose aim is to change the centuries-old "status quo" that provides that Jews can pray at the Western Wall and can visit – but not pray at – the Temple Mount, the site ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2017 Temple Mount crisis Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Muslims praying at the entrance to the Temple Mount. They refused to go through the metal detectors. Location Jerusalem Cause 2017 Temple Mount shooting Outcome Further Temple Mount entry restrictions 113 wounded in police clashes ...
The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Jerusalem:, Israel Carta, 2006. ISBN 965-220-628-8; Hamblin, William and David Seely, Solomon's Temple: Myth and History (Thames and Hudson, 2007) ISBN 0-500-25133-9; Yaron Eliav, God's Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place and Memory (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built under Constantine in the 320s, but the Temple Mount was left undeveloped after a failed project of restoration of the Jewish Temple under Emperor Julian. [21] In 638 CE, Byzantine Jerusalem was conquered by the Arab armies of Umar ibn al-Khattab, [22] second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
The excavations lasted almost twenty years and revealed many previously unknown facts about the history and geography of the Temple Mount. The tunnel exposes a total length of 500 m (a third of a mile) of the wall, revealing the methods of construction and the various activities in the vicinity of the Temple Mount.
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