Posted on 08/01/2009 3:00:37 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
In a small town in eastern England lies a 1,800-square foot project that is still a well-guarded secret from most of the world: possibly the most accurate model of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in existence.
Its builder is a retired property-developer named Alec Garrard, who has been working on it for nearly 30 years – and expects to continue to do so until his dying day. “It’s not me who says it’s the most accurate model of the Temple in the world,” he told Israel National Radio’s Walter Bingham. “It’s the experts who come and say so!”
Bingham, just slightly older than the 79-year-old model builder, says it took him “three weeks of intensive research to locate” the model and finally found it in a one-street village named Needham.
Garrard told him that he began building his Holy Temple for his own pleasure, and “didn’t realize the great interest it would attract.” He says he always built models as a child, but gave up the pastime in his teenage years when he became “seriously interested in religion” and active in his church. However, at age 50, after a series of clashes with various church leaders, he decided to return to model-building. He can't exactly explain why, but his first, and only, subject became the Holy Temple built in Jerusalem some 2,500 years ago, and later added on to by King Herod.
The model Temple in the English countryside town is built, at a 1:100 scale, of thousands of tiny clay bricks and tiles, all of which Garrard fashioned, baked, and painted manually. In addition, he has made some 4,000 ¾-inch human figures – “each one with its own costume and playing its own part in one scene or another.”
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Ping
How long before the Muslims come along and build a mosque on top of it?
Well done... lol
If I may quote a Freeper . . .
So the Temple is rebuilt and there’s a big fight out at Megiddo. It’s not like it’s the end of the world.
SlowBoat407
Muslims don’t build, they only destroy.
That would go great with my model trains.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t built a full sized model. It would easily pay for itself with tourism.
If built in Israel, as a “detail” model, with the full understanding that it would not under any circumstances be, or be converted to, the real temple, but with the idea that down to the smallest detail it was like the original temple, it would probably start the greatest Rabbinical argument of all time.
From dusk until dawn the Rabbis could argue, then the tourists would take over from dawn to dusk.
Just bulldoze that hemarroid which is infecting the Mount and build it already! Muslims have no right to any portion of that holy ground.
When Allah defeats El Shaddai = NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DRIVEL......
Isfahan and look at the beautiful buildigs
I meant these days.
THANKS.
GREAT FIND.
Check out these photos of Dubai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-Oj7We3eM
BFL
So, you admit your original assertion was completely incorrect.
Changing the argument does not make you right
No, I don’t admit that. I said Muslims don’t build, they destroy. I didn’t think I had to explain that I meant this is occurring now, in the present day. Muslims did indeed build beautiful structures, but they’re more likely these days to destroy rather than build. As for your allegation that I changed the argument, I plead guilty. I changed the argument from Muslims’ general predilection for destroying things to the location of your head. It seems it’s still where I said it was.
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