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Western Wall. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [1] often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), 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]), is a portion of ancient limestone wall in the ...
The work took some four years, between 1537 and 1541. [1] [2] The walls are visible on most old maps of Jerusalem over the last 1,500 years. The length of the walls is 4,018 meters (2.497 miles), their average height is 12 meters (39 feet) and the average thickness is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet). The walls contain 34 watchtowers and seven main gates ...
A girl places a note into a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Placing notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks of the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem . It is claimed that occurrence of such a phenomenon dates from the early ...
Herodian architecture is a style of classical architecture characteristic of the numerous building projects undertaken during the reign (37–4 BC) of Herod the Great, the Roman client king of Judea. Herod undertook many colossal building projects, most famously his reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (c. 19 BC).
German. Education. Polytechnic Institute, Stuttgart, Movement. Orientalist. Gustav Bauernfeind ( German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈbaʊɐnfaɪnt]; 4 September 1848, in Sulz am Neckar – 24 December 1904, in Jerusalem) was a German painter, illustrator, and architect. He is considered to be one of the most notable Orientalist painters of Germany.
Excavations in the area represent one of the more sensitive areas of all archaeological excavations in Jerusalem . The term Temple Mount usually refers to the artificially expanded platform at the top of the natural hill and the compound situated there. The compound is delineated by four ancient retaining walls, and is of high religious ...
Warren's Gate ( Hebrew: שער וורן, romanized : Sha'ar Varen) is an ancient entrance into the Temple platform in Jerusalem. Located about 150 feet (46 m) into the Western Wall Tunnel, the gate was first described by and later named after nineteenth century British surveyor Charles Warren. During the Second Temple period, Warren's Gate led ...
The International Commission for the Wailing Wall [1] (aka 1930 Western Wall Commission) was a commission appointed by the British government, under their responsibilities in the Mandate for Palestine, in response to the 1929 Palestine riots. The Commission appointed by the UK Government. [1]