[Telepathic Intruder]

"how did the erection of that building desecrate anything"

It was well-known at the time the significance of the location, which is exactly why an Islamic temple was built there. Muslims have a traditional habit of building mosques over the holy sites of other religions, in order to forcibly replace them.

[muawiyah]

You are assuming an awful big lot there ~ about what people knew of the significance of anything. Ignance was rife!

Now, about the last previous guy to build something at Temple Mount ~ wasn't that Herod the Great? He wasn't exactly Jewish either ~ or are we now to count Herod among the Jews.

There's now a building there over the site of the altar and I believe that building is about 1300 years old ~ which is really old as buildings go.

[sopwith]

Bingo

[editor-surveyor]

>> “how did the erection of that building desecrate anything” <<

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It is built over the altar on which Abraham had tied Isaac to sacrifice him, had a goat not appeared.

[gleeaikin]

In Mexico, and I imagine other places, the Spaniards systematically built churches over Altec places of worship. When I was at Mexico City College (US owned and operated) in the late 1950s, someone wanted to do a thesis on the mixing of pre-Columbian practices and Catholic practices. They were denied this thesis project.