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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 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 area in which the modern Jewish Quarter now stands is the western hill of the historical Old City, which has been part of the pre-medieval walled city twice: during the First Temple period between the reign of King Hezekiah around 700 BCE and the destruction by Nabuchadnezzar in 586 BCE, and again from the Hasmonean period to the Roman ...
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).
Hashemite custodianship of Jerusalem holy sites; Herod's Gate; Huldah Gates; Hurva Synagogue; Jaffa Gate; Jaffa Road; Jerusalem; Jerusalem Waqf; Jerusalem in Christianity; Jerusalem in Judaism; Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem) Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem; Lions' Gate; Little Western Wall; Ma'ale HaShalom; Madrasa al-Ashrafiyya; Maronite Convent ...
The Western Wall (kotel hama'aravi), in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, is one of the holiest sites in modern Judaism. This is because it is the closest point to the original site of the Holy of Holies which is currently inaccessible to Jews.
The urban area did not include the western hill (containing the Jewish, Armenian and Christian Quarters of modern Jerusalem), which had been inside the walls before the Babylonian destruction. [ 21 ] The Bible describes the construction of a wall by Nehemiah .