These are all photos taken at the Temple Mount (and of the Temple Mount). This is located on top of Mount Moriah. This is the place where, as recorded in Gen.22, God directed Abraham to bring his only son Isaac and prepare to offer him as a sacrifice. This is also the place where, as recorded in 2 Sam.24, God stops the plague and David buys the threshing floor from Araunah the Jebusite. Also, where Solomon builds the Temple to God which was first destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., and where the second Temple of Jesus' time was re-built during the days of Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, Ezra and later enlarged and beautified by Herod the Great. Today the Temple area is under the control of the Moslems in an effort to keep peace. The Temple is gone and in its place is the Moslem Shrine, known as the Dome of the Rock. This shrine was built between 687-691 A.D, and is decorated with blue, green, yellow, and white Persian tiles. The dome rises some 108 feet above the ground and is covered with an aluminum bronze alloy from Italy. This shrine was used as a church by the Crusaders from 1099-1187.
(THANKS AGAIN TO MY DAD FOR ALL THE BRILLIANT WORDS HERE, from his notebook)
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