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==Location of the temple==
==Location of the temple==
The issue of where the Jewish temple stood has attracted both interest and controversy. Traditionally, the temple was said to have been at the location where the Dome of the Rock now stands. In modern times, various sites on the Temple Mount have been suggested.<ref name="dolphin">Dolphin, Lambert and Kollen, Michael, "[http://www.templemount.org/theories.html On The Location of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem]."</ref> The idea that the temple was located outside the Temple Mount has also received attention, but is rejected by specialists as a fringe theory.<ref>Ruth Schuster and Ran Shapira, "[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/were-there-jewish-temples-on-temple-mount-yes-1.5411705 Were There Jewish Temples on Temple Mount?]", ''Haaretz'', Jul 24, 2017.</ref> Archaeological digs on the Temple Mount are banned by the Waqf, making the issue difficult to resolve.[[File:Tuvia_Sagiv,_Temple_Mount_in_Jerusalem_with_the_Hadrian_temple_of_Jupiter_in_Baalbek_in_Lebanon_overlaid.jpg|thumb|left|The black lines represent the current Temple Mount, blue is Hadrian's Temple to Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon, and red is a possible plan for the Herodian temple. Like the Temple to Jupiter in Jerusalem, the Baalbek temple was built by Hadrian. If the design of the Jerusalem temple was similar, the site of the octogonal Dome of the Rock corresponds to that of the hexagonal forecourt of Hadrian's temple. Drawing by Tuvia Sagiv.]]
The issue of where the Jewish temple stood has attracted both interest and controversy. Traditionally, the temple was said to have been at the location where the Dome of the Rock now stands. In modern times, various sites on the Temple Mount have been suggested.<ref name="dolphin">Dolphin, Lambert and Kollen, Michael, "[http://www.templemount.org/theories.html On The Location of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem]."</ref> The idea that the temple was located outside the Temple Mount has also received attention, but is rejected by specialists as a fringe theory.<ref>Ruth Schuster and Ran Shapira, "[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/were-there-jewish-temples-on-temple-mount-yes-1.5411705 Were There Jewish Temples on Temple Mount?]", ''Haaretz'', Jul 24, 2017.</ref> Archaeological digs on the Temple Mount are banned by the Waqf, making the issue difficult to resolve.[[File:Tuvia_Sagiv,_Temple_Mount_in_Jerusalem_with_the_Hadrian_temple_of_Jupiter_in_Baalbek_in_Lebanon_overlaid.jpg|thumb|left|The black lines represent the current Temple Mount, blue is Hadrian's Temple to Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon, and red is a possible plan for the Herodian temple. Like the Temple to Jupiter in Jerusalem, the Baalbek temple was built by Hadrian. If the design of the Jerusalem temple was similar, the site of the octogonal Dome of the Rock corresponds to that of the hexagonal forecourt of Hadrian's temple. Drawing by Tuvia Sagiv.]]
===Dome of the Rock===
The traditional view is that the Holy of Holies was located at what in now the Dome of the Rock. In the Mishna, which consists of writing by later rabbis, this stone the called the "foundation stone" and is connected with the temple and to various other things. The foundation stone is used in Isaiah and Psalms as a metaphor for God's convenant with Israel.<ref>Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22.</ref> Thus there is no Biblical basis to connect it to a physical stone.
===al-Kas Fountain===
===al-Kas Fountain===