Temple Mount And Wailing Wall

The women of the new roman city built over the ruins of jerusalem were instructed by roman law to take their garbage to the dump daily wall of the old temple site.

Temple mount and wailing wall.

The first temple was destroyed by the babylonians in 587 586 bce and the second temple was destroyed by the romans in 70 ce. The wailing wall is not part of the foundation wall for the old temple it is the wall of the old roman antonia fortress. For muslims temple mount is also known as the noble sanctuary or haram al sharif. For 500 years until the muslims captured jerusalem this whole southwest area where the wailing wall the kotel was known as a garbage dump.

In a broader sense western wall can refer to the entire 488 metre long 1 601 ft retaining wall on the western side of the temple mount. Jewish people pray at the western wall which is structurally a retaining wall for temple mount. Incensed and fearing that the tunnel the israelis began digging starting from the wailing wall and under the temple mount shortly after the war was over was designed to undermine the foundations of al aqsa mosque islam s third holiest site after the mosques in mecca and medina in saudi arabia palestinians and other muslims rioted. It is the only remains of the retaining wall surrounding the temple mount the site of the first and second temples of jerusalem held to be uniquely holy by the ancient jews.