In the first century B.C., King Herod undertook a massive reshaping of the Temple Mount. He filled up the slopes surrounding the mount’s summit and expanded it to its present size. He enclosed ...

A record number of Jews visited the Temple Mount during the Passover holiday, an organization working to strengthen Jewish ...

Herod's Temple caught fire and was destroyed after a Roman soldier tossed a torch through one of its windows. Before the Islamic Al-Aqsa mosque was built on the Temple Mount in the seventh century ...

The southern Temple vision is not just a return to a more accurate physical location — it is a spiritual rejection of ...

First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod the Great in 20 BCE and not completed until shortly before the outbreak of the Great Revolt in 66 CE.

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...