Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, [9] [10] [a] and where two Jewish temples once stood. [12] [13] [14] According to Jewish tradition and scripture, [15] the First Temple was built by King Solomon, the son of King David, in 957 BCE, and was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, together with Jerusalem, in 587 BCE.
Today, the Pool of Siloam is the lowest place in altitude within the historical city of Jerusalem, with an elevation of about 625 metres (2,051 ft) above sea level. The ascent from it unto the Temple Mount meant a gradient of 115 metres (377 ft) in altitude at a linear distance of about 634 metres (2,080 ft), with a mean elevation in the Temple ...
Today, the archeological site is part of the Palestinian neighborhood and former village of Silwan, which was historically centered on the slopes of the southern part of the Mount of Olives, east of the City of David. In the 20th century, the village spread west and crossed the valley to the eastern hill, the site of the ancient city. [20]
The Old City of Jerusalem ( Arabic: المدينة القديمة, romanized : al-Madīna al-Qadīma, Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, romanized : Ha'ír Ha'atiká) is a 0.9-square-kilometre (0.35 sq mi) walled area [2] in East Jerusalem . In a tradition that may have begun with an 1840s British map of the city, the Old City is ...
Jerusalem is situated on the southern spur of a plateau in the Judaean Mountains, which include the Mount of Olives (East) and Mount Scopus (North East). The elevation of the Old City is approximately 760 m (2,490 ft). [327] The whole of Jerusalem is surrounded by valleys and dry riverbeds ( wadis ).
The cartography of Jerusalem is the creation, editing, processing and printing of maps of Jerusalem from ancient times until the rise of modern surveying techniques. Most extant maps known to scholars from the pre-modern era were prepared by Christian mapmakers for a Christian European audience. [1] [2]
The Golden Gate is one of the few sealed gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls, along with the Huldah Gates, and a small Biblical and Crusader-era postern located several stories above ground on the southern side of the eastern wall. Golden Gate from within the Temple Mount, in the 19th century. Golden Gate in the 1920s.
Mount Zion ( Hebrew: הַר צִיּוֹן, Har Ṣīyyōn; Arabic: جبل صهيون, Jabal Sahyoun) is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David ( 2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2) and later for the Temple ...