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Depiction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem by the 16th-century French scholar François Vatable. The description of Solomon's Temple given in I Kings and II Chronicles is remarkably detailed, but attempts to reconstruct it have met many difficulties. [49] The description includes various technical terms that have lost their original meaning to ...
The Temple of Solomon, or First Temple, consisted of four main elements: the Great or Outer Court, where people assembled to worship; [35] the Inner Court [36] or Court of the Priests; [37] and the Temple building itself, with. the larger Holy Place (hekhal), called the "greater house" [38] and the "temple" [39] and
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 ...
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Solomon's Porch, Portico or Colonnade (στοα του Σολομωντος; John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12), was a colonnade or cloister, located on the eastern side of the Temple's Outer Court (Women's Court) in Jerusalem, named after Solomon, King of Israel, and not to be confused with the Royal Stoa, which was on the southern side of Herod's Temple.
Once the First Temple was erected at the top of the Eastern Hill, the name "Mount Zion" migrated there too. [1] After the conquest of the Jebusite city, its built-up area expanded northward towards the uppermost part of the same, Eastern Hill. This highest part became the site of Solomon's Temple.
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.
The Temple of Solomon [1] (Portuguese: Templo de Salomão, IPA: [ˈtẽplu dʒi saloˈmɐ̃w]) is a replica of the Temple of Solomon built by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in São Paulo. According to Brazilian press reports, the new temple is an "exact replica" of the ancient Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. [2]