Temple Mount

The Temple Mount, biblical Mount Moriah, is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the site of the former Jewish temple built by King Solomon of Israel in the mid-tenth century BC. The temple was rebuilt by King Herod of Judea, in the first century BC. Jesus visited the Herodian Temple to overturned the tables of the money changers. The Roman general Titus destroyed this temple in 70 AD during a Jewish revolt. Although the Temple Mount was captured by the Israelis in 1967, it is still controlled by a Jordanian-financed Islamic religious authority called the Waqf. The most prominent buildings on the Temple Mount are the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine built between 687-691, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, built about 710. As the site of Muhammad's ascension to heaven, Al-Aqsa is considered to be the third holiest site in Islam.

Temple Mount
Arabic name
Arabic	الحر٠القدسي الشريف
Romanization	al-Haram al-Qudsī ash-Sharīf (Noble Sanctuary)
Hebrew name
Hebrew	הר הבית
Romanization	Har ha-Bayit