Jewish attitudes towards entering the site vary. The Temple Mount is the place Jews turn towards during prayer.
Orthodox Jewish tradition maintains it is here that the third and final Temple will be built when the Messiah comes. The Second Temple was constructed under the auspices of Zerubbabel in 516 BCE, was renovated by King Herod, and was destroyed by the Roman Empire in 70 CE. According to Jewish tradition and scripture, the First Temple was built by King Solomon, the son of King David, in 957 BCE, and was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE. As no scientific excavations have ever been conducted on the site, no archaeological evidence has been found to verify this. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. The courtyard is surrounded on the north and west by two Mamluk-era porticos ( riwaq) and four minarets. The Herodian walls and gates, with additions from the late Byzantine, early Muslim, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods, flank the site, which can be reached through eleven gates, ten reserved for Muslims and one for non-Muslims, with guard posts of the Israel Police in the vicinity of each.
It stands where past Jewish temples are commonly believed to have stood. The plaza is dominated by two monumental structures originally built during the Rashidun and early Umayyad caliphates after the city's capture in 661 CE: the main praying hall of al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, near the center of the hill, which was completed in 692 CE, making it one of the oldest extant Islamic structures in the world. The present site is a flat plaza surrounded by retaining walls (including the Western Wall), which were originally built by King Herod in the first century BCE for an expansion of the Second Jewish Temple. 'The Furthest Mosque'), and sometimes as Jerusalem's sacred (or holy) esplanade, is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem that has been venerated as a holy site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam for thousands of years. 'The Noble Sanctuary'), al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or simply al-Aqsa Mosque ( المسجد الأقصى, al-Masjid al-Aqṣā, lit. The Temple Mount ( Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har haBayīt, lit.'Mount of the House '), also known as al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf ( Arabic: الحرم الشريف, lit.
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