WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Today the Temple Mount, a walled compound within the Old City of Jerusalem, is the site of two magnificent structures: the Dome of the Rock to the north and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the south. In the southwest stands the Western Wall-a remnant of the Second Temple and the holiest site in Judaism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Second Temple (Hebrew: , Bēṯ hamMīqdāš hašŠēnī, transl. ‘Second House of the Sanctum’), later known as Herod’s Temple, was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem between c. 516 BCE and 70 CE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Wailing Wall is a fragment of the Temple Mount’s fortifications-all that remains of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans, led by Emperor Titus, during the First Jewish War in 70 AD.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wailing Wall, also referred to as the Kotel, the Western Wall, or Solomon’s Wall, and whose lower sections date to about the first century BCE, is located in the Old Quarter of East Jerusalem in Israel.