Temple Mount

The Temple Mount and the Al Aqsa Compound is a slope situated in the Old City of Jerusalem that for an immense number of years has been worshiped as a hallowed site, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike. The present site is a level court included by holding dividers checking the Western Wall which was worked in the midst of the manage of Herod the Great for an augmentation of the asylum. The court is requested by three thousand structures from the earliest starting point Umayyad course of events: Al-Aqsa Mosque, the vault of the stone and the arch of the chain, and furthermore four minarets.

Herodian dividers and passages, with increments from the late Byzantine and early Islamic periods, cut through the flanks of the Mount. At show it can be come to through eleven entryways, ten held for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, with watch posts of Israeli police in the area of each. As showed by the Bible, the Jewish Temples stayed on the Temple Mount. According to Jewish tradition and sacrosanct written work, the First Temple was worked by King Solomon the offspring of King David in 957 BCE and pulverized by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The second was worked under the assurance of Zerubbabel in 516 BCE and devastated by the Roman Empire in 70 CE.