The Temple Mount &The Western Wall

The Temple Mount –Mount Morish-Haram el-Sharif

 The Temple Mount is the holiest site to Judsaism and the third holiest place to Islam.
The First and Second Temples stood here,and orthodox Jews refrain from entering the holy precincts.

The Western Wall
First century BCE, King Herod the Great

This is the most sacred site in the world for Jews, after the Temple Mount. Because the
Western Wall was one of the few elements of the Second Temple complex not destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD CE, many legends surround it, and in the sixteenth
Century it became the focus of pilgrimage and prayers for redemption.

The wall is 60 meters long. The first seven courses of stone date back to the days of Herod the Great.

The Western Wall Tunnel , parallels to the entire length of the Temple Mount.

The Southern Wall Excavations

Beneath Robinson's Arch ran a Herodian –era street lined with shops.
The excavations continue along the southern wall of the Temple Mount to a
flight of monumental steps that once led via the Hulda Gates to the Temple.
Near the steps are the remains of numerous ritual baths and other structures.