Where is the Temple Mount located?

The Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Haram esh-Sharif is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem that for thousands of years has been venerated as a holy site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, which regards it as the place where God's divine presence is manifested more than in any other place, and is the place Jews turn towards during prayer. According to the rabbinic sages whose debates produced the Talmud, it was from here the world expanded into its present form and where God gathered the dust used to create the first human, Adam.

Muslims view the site as being one of the earliest and most noteworthy places of worship of God. For a few years in the early stages of Islam, Muhammad instructed his followers to face the Mount during prayer.

During the Byzantine era, Jerusalem was primarily Christian and pilgrims came by the tens of thousands to experience the places where Jesus walked.

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Jas Newman

Re "... for thousands of years has been venerated as a holy site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike."—This statement can be true of only Judaism because neither Christianity nor Islam have been in existence long enough to make it accurate.

Sheldon Burnston

The Temple Mouht is where the 2 Jewish Temples to God were built.

Sheldon Burnston

Jana Thornton, The Temples were on top of the Mount; not the other way around. We pray at the Wall because no one today knows exactly where on the Mount the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, stood. Religious Jews don't want to accidentally step on sacred ground where only the High Priest was allowed, and that only once a year on the Day of Atonement. That retaining wall is all that is left of the original construction when Herod rebuilt the Temple, in an attempt ti ingratiate himself with the Jewish people. Gentiles named it the "Wailing" Wall when they saw Jews crying over the destruction of God's House on Earth so many years ago.