This model looks northeast toward the Temple. To the left is the Antonia Fortress, to the right is Solomon's Portico. In the Center is the Holy of Holies. Robinson's Arch is visible in the nearest ...

built by King Solomon, in which to worship God, according to Jewish tradition — which stood just a few hundred yards away on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Archaeologists discovered the structure on ...

According to the Bible, Hezekiah sought to centralize worship at the Temple in Jerusalem, abolishing the ritual sites scattered across the kingdom. The Bible describes how, during the First Temple ...

Work on the construction of the original version of the Second Temple was completed around 516 BCE, in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple, aka “Solomon’s Temple ...