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The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, [9] [10] [a] and where two Jewish temples once stood. [12] [13] [14] According to Jewish tradition and scripture, [15] the First Temple was built by King Solomon, the son of King David, in 957 BCE, and was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, together with Jerusalem, in 587 BCE.
Dome (s) 1. The Dome of the Rock ( Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized : Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically attested religious structure to be ...
Beginning in 1968, Israeli archaeologists began excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount, immediately south of the al-Aqsa Mosque, uncovering Roman, Umayyad and Crusader remains. [9] In 1970, Israeli authorities commenced intensive excavations to the south and west of the compound. Over the period 1970–1988, the Israeli authorities ...
The Trumpeting Place inscription, a stone (2.43×1 m) with Hebrew writing "To the Trumpeting Place" uncovered during archaeological excavations by Benjamin Mazar at the southern foot of the Temple Mount once marked the place where a priest stood to blow a trumpet ushering in the Sabbath in the Herodian period.
Hashemite custodianship refers to the Jordanian royal family 's role in tending Muslim and Christian holy sites in the city of Jerusalem. [ 1] The legacy traces back to 1924 when the Supreme Muslim Council, the highest Muslim body in charge of Muslim community affairs in Mandatory Palestine, chose Hussein bin Ali ( Sharif of Mecca) as custodian ...
The Temple Mount viewed from southeast Map of the Temple Mount; some gates are described in the map. The Temple Mount, a holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem, also known as the al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf or Al-Aqsa, contains twelve gates. One of the gates, Bab as-Sarai, is currently closed to the public but was open under Ottoman rule.
The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash ( Hebrew: מכון המקדש ), is an organization in Israel focusing on establishing the Third Temple. Its long-term aims are to build the third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, on the site occupied by the Dome of the Rock, and to reinstate animal sacrificial worship.
Temple Mount entry restrictions. A sign by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel warns that entering the site goes against the Halakha (Jewish religious law). The entry restrictions for tourists, showing opening times and a Rabbinic warning. At present, the Government of Israel controls access to the Temple Mount, also known as Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ...