The Temple Mount (Hebrew Har haBayit), also known as the Noble Sanctuary is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem. Jerusalem temple site
The Temple Mount is the holiest site for Judaism. The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem stood there: the First Temple (built c. 967 BCE, destroyed c. 586 BCE by the Babylonians, and the Second Temple (rebuilt c. 516 BCE, destroyed in the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE).
"As the navel is set in the centre of the human body,
so is the land of Israel the navel of the world...
situated in the centre of the world,
and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel,
and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,
and the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary,
and the ark in the centre of the holy place,
and the foundation stone before the holy place,
because from it the world was founded."
Midrash Tanchuma, Qedoshim.
Walk about Zion,
go round about her,
number her towers,
consider well her ramparts,
go through her citadels;
that you may tell the next generation that this is God,
our God for ever and ever.
He will be our guide for ever.
(Psalm 48:12-14)
Tour in the temple mount on these days he is a possible thing for all tourist or Israeli the object as such, on weekdays and for free. Indeed the tour is possible nowadays only in square of the mountain and around the buildings and not in them, but also so this still one of the pretty places, the thrilling and the rich that in the sites of country. Despite the fact that the Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site, much of the media has stressed its importance to Muslims -Page last Updated 12/05/2008
Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Temple Mount history, Temple Mount tour, Temple Mount tunnel
According to a commonly held belief in Judaism, it is to be the site of final Third Temple to be rebuilt with the coming of the Jewish Messiah.
Known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, it is also the site of two major Muslim religious shrines, the Dome of the Rock (built c. 690) and Al-Aqsa Mosque (built c. 710). It is one of the most contested religious sites in the world. Under the Jordanian rule of Eastern Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967, Jews were forbidden from entering the Old City. Both Israel and the The Palestinian Authority claim sovereignty over the site, which remains a key issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Israeli government has granted management of the site to a Muslim Council (Waqf).
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