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14 ❯❯ Top 10 Israel and Petra Highlights

Temple Mount

The focal point of Jerusalem for over 3,000 years, the Temple
Mount was the site of Solomon’s First Temple and its replacement,
the Second Temple. Rebuilt in the 1st century BC by Herod the
Great, the complex (from where Jesus is said to have expelled the
merchants and moneychangers) was destroyed by the Romans in
AD 70. The Mount remained derelict until the arrival of Islam in the
7th century, when the golden Dome of the Rock was
built and the Mount became known to Muslims as
Al-Haram ash-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary).

Temple Mount

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Al-Kas Fountain
1 NEED TO KNOW
The largest of the ablution fountains still
operational on the Mount, the 14th-century Al-Kas MAP Q4 • Entrance
is carved from a single block of stone. via Moors’ Gate, next to
the Western Wall Plaza
• (02) 622 6250 • Egged
buses 1 and 3
Open summer: 7:30–
11am & 1:30–2:30pm
Sun–Thu; winter: 7:30–
10am & 12:30–1.30pm
Sun–Thu
• Non-Muslims must
enter through the Moors’
Gate but they can exit
via any open gate. Non-
Golden Gate
Solomon’s
2 3 Muslims cannot enter
Stables
the Dome of the Rock
Jewish tradition
Part of the underground states that the Messiah or Al-Aqsa Mosque.
vaulting system (above) will enter Jerusalem • Jewish religious law
built by Herod to support through this Herodian prohibits Jews from
the Second Temple, portal. Walled up in the visiting, while Israeli
this structure became 7th century, the gate secular law forbids
a mosque in 1996. It can has remained closed Jews from praying here.
hold 10,000 worshippers. ever since.

Eyewitness Travel – Top 10 series LAYERS PRINTED:
Three-column, 8.25pt grid “UK” LAYER
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Date 12th May 2015
Size 100mm x 191mm