Located in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, the hill is identified with the Biblical Mount Moriah, where Abraham set the alter to sacrifice his son Isaac. The First Temple was built on the Mount in the middle of the 10th century B.C.E. and destroyed in 587 B.C.E. The Second Temple was built on the same location in 561 B.C.E. and destroyed in 70 C.E. by the Roman Legion.
The artificially expanded hill in Jerusalem on which the First and second temples stood, now occupied by the Muslim Dome of the Rock.
the plateau on the top of the massive mountain in the south-east corner of the Island of Mist and Memory. It houses the Temple Complex.
A 35-acre compound in the old city of Jerusalem. The site of King Solomon's and Herod's Temples. Herod the Great started an expansion project in 20 B.C. and finished 83 years later in 64 A.D. During the Six Day War, Israel took control of the Temple Mount for the first time in over 1900 years. As a show of good faith and in hope of peace, the Israeli government decided to hand jurisdiction of the Temple Mount back to Muslim religious leaders called the "Waqf".
Mount Moriah. Site of the First and Second Temples. Today the place of the El-Aksa Mosque.
A thirty-five acre plateau located at the southeastern corner of Jersulame's walled Old City, In Bibilicat times, the First and Second Jewish Temple stood there, but today the surface is entirely Mulism and is where the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques are located. The Muslims refer to the Mount as the Noble Sancutary and they believe that the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven from a rock that the Dome now encloses. Jewish tradition holds that the Mount was buit over the spot where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Issac.
Site in the Old City of Jerusalem sacred to Jews because it represents the location of Herod's Temple. The site is now controlled by the Islamic Waqf and contains the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
An area of roughly 40 acres on Mount Moriah on which the Jewish Temple was built in 950 B.C. The Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians and rebuilt 70 years later. It was razed by the Romans in 70 A.D. The Muslims subsequently built the mosque known as the Dome of the Rock on a plaza above the Western Wall in 691 and added a second great mosque, El-Aqsa, 20 years later.
The artificial platform enlarged by King Herod (37–4 BCE) to accommodate a refurbished Second Temple. The natural elevation with valleys on its eastern, southern, and western sides was enlarged by extending retaining walls on these sides and filling them with earth to create a level platform 30 football fields in area.
The Israeli name for the site of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, the most holy place in Judaism. Only the Western or Wailing Wall remains, almost literally overshadowed by the mosque complex which Arabs call the Haram al-Sharif.
The Temple Mount ( Har haBáyit), known as The Noble Sanctuary ( al-ḥaram al-qudsī ash-sharīf) to Arabs and Muslims, is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem.
