According to Josephus, a contemporary of the time, this place that is called the temple mount is the location of the old Roman citadel. The original temple was located in the city of David near the Gihon Spring and ruins of it have now been revealed.
My hubby went to Israel on a ten day tour with a Catholic group a few months ago. I did NOT want to go as I don’t like to fly. And I like to control where I stay, which would have been wayyyyy too expensive. :)
They were marched double time all over the place and he loved it. He felt sorry for the older people on the trip, it was very rough on them. He said it was a fantastic trip, and if not for being on the tour they (our friend who traveled also) would never have been able to manage to visit even a quarter as many places. He swan in the dead sea, and rode a camel and they tried to sneak into some place on the border that was pretty much FORBIDDEN and got really close to being in real trouble. Great tales. He loved it and has his holy land tour complete.
I had zero interest in going, but I encouraged him to do it as I was worried that with all the craziness going on over there it may all get destroyed or something.
I never specified the current “location” of the Temple mount, all I said was that the temple Mt (Mt Zion) is the center of the World. It is not the purpose of this article to locate the site of the original temple, only to declare the significance of Jerusalem and the temple MT.”Yet I have set my King on his Holy Hill of Zion-”Psalm 2