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To: bitt
***For those unaware, the Al-Aqsa Mosque sits on the same ground where the first two Holy Temples were located***

This could be termed a bit misleading. "The same ground" if we consider the whole surface of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, the "two Holy Temples" (Solomon's and Herod the Great's) were believed to have been located over the "Rock" where Abraham undertook to sacrifice Isaac, which is now the location of the Islamic 'Dome of the Rock', the larger structure in the center of the picture of the Temple Mount below. So both mosques are on the Temple Mount, but the Dome of the Rock is technically situated where 'the first two Holy Temples were located'.

The Temple Mount is now wholly claimed by Islam; only the 'Western Wall' is accessible by Jews for prayer. Interestingly, the two mosques atop the Temple Mount had fallen into serious disrepair during the reign of the Ottoman Empire. Early in the 20th century, following the Balfour Declaration and the rise of Germany's Third Reich, did these two Islamic Mosques suddenly become important to the world's Muslims.

The 'Al-Aqsa' ('el Aksa' in the picture) is the smaller structure at the bottom of the frame.


2,425 posted on 03/13/2026 7:06:09 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland
hebrew temple was destroyed. It was replaced with Jupiters Temple in 70 AD 135 AD—that the Romans completed a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount, the former site of the Jewish Temple temple featured a hexagonal forecourt and a rectangular main structure.

today the location of the Dome of the Rock (Mosque) Suggested that Jupiters temple is now rebuilt started in 1910 finished in 1930: Museum Island (Museumsinsel) Picture on Google map that looks like it was pieced back together. The museum was built between 1910 and 1930 based on designs by architect Alfred Messel, with Ludwig Hoffmann(Sumerian & Old Persian is Anunna-ki) overseeing completion after Messel's death. Started by the Emperor Wilhelm II and state funded.
Museum Island (Museumsinsel) Likely Jupiter temple that was on on the site of Hebrew temple
2,436 posted on 03/13/2026 7:56:25 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn
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2,451 posted on 03/13/2026 9:21:59 PM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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