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2 days ago · This artificial expansion resulted in a large flat expanse which today forms the eastern section of the Old City of Jerusalem. The trapezium shaped platform measures 488 m (1,601 ft) along the west, 470 m (1,540 ft) along the east, 315 m (1,033 ft) along the north and 280 m (920 ft) along the south, giving a total area of approximately 150,000 ...
May 3, 2024 · Gethsemane, garden across the Kidron Valley on the Mount of Olives, a ridge paralleling the eastern part of Jerusalem, where Jesus is said to have prayed on the night of his arrest before the Crucifixion. The name suggests that the garden was a grove of olive trees in which was located an oil press.
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May 7, 2024 · The Temple Mount is the name for the site of the Temple of Jerusalem, which was destroyed by the Romans on the 9th/10th of Av in 70 CE. It consists of a raised platform that, since the 7th century, has been home to the Islamic holy sites of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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3 days ago · ' prayer hall of the qibla (south) '), is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. In some sources the building is also named al-Masjid al-Aqṣā, [3] [4] [5] but this name primarily applies to the whole compound in which the building sits, which is itself also known as "Al-Aqsa ...
May 7, 2024 · However, scholars began to question this identification in the 19th century, since the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is inside the city walls of the present-day Old City of Jerusalem. Golgotha would have to have been located outside the city in accordance with Roman and Jewish customs of the time.
May 22, 2024 · Al-Aqsa Mosque, mosque in Jerusalem, located in the Old City at the terminal point of the Prophet Muhammad’s Isrāʾ journey. According to Islamic sources, the Qurʾān (17:1) indicates that Muhammad was miraculously transported one night from Mecca ( al-masjid al-ḥaram , or “the sacred place of worship”) to this site in Jerusalem ( al ...
2 days ago · The Ladder — with its five or six rungs of cedar — leans against an upper window of Jerusalem’s famed Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It’s stood in the same spot for at least 150 years. What’s it doing there? The Old City of Jerusalem is home to many religious sites, one of which is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
