Temple Mount
The Temple Mount is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem. Once the site of two successive Temples in Jerusalem, it is now home to the Islamic compound known as al-Aqsa, which includes the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Religious site
- Description: religious hilltop in the Old City of Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Al Aqsa”, “Al Aqsa Compound”, “Aqsa Mosque”, “Farthest Mosque”, “Har haBáyit”, “Har haMoria”, “Haram al-Sharif”, “Masjid Al-Aqsa”, “Masjid Aqsa”, and “Masjid-e-Aqsa”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa Mosque is situated 210 metres south of Temple Mount.
Western Wall
Synagogue
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The Western Wall is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Arab world and Islamic world as the Buraq Wall. Western Wall is situated 190 metres southwest of Temple Mount.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old City and Gethsemane.
Old City
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The Old City of Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem surrounded by the impressive 16th-century Ottoman city walls and representing the heart of the city both historically and spiritually.
Gethsemane
Locality
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Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
Muslim Quarter
Neighborhood
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The Muslim Quarter is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem. It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.
Temple Mount
- Categories: hill, sacred mountain, compound, mosque, neighborhood, and religion
- Location: Quds Governorate, West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Temple Mount” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tempelberg”
- Arabic: “االمسجد الأقصا”
- Arabic: “الأقصى الشريف”
- Arabic: “الأقصى”
- Arabic: “الجامع الأقصى الشريف”
- Arabic: “الجامع الأقصى”
- Arabic: “الحرم الشريف”
- Arabic: “المسجد الأقصى الشريف”
- Arabic: “جبل المعبد”
- Armenian: “Տաճարի լեռ”
- Asturian: “Monte del Templu”
- Azerbaijani: “Məbəd dağı”
- Basque: “Mezkiten Zabalgunea”
- Basque: “Mezkiten Zelaigunea”
- Basque: “Tenpluaren mendia”
- Basque: “Tenpluaren Mendia”
- Belarusian: “Храмавая гара”
- Bengali: “হারাম আল-শরিফ”
- Bulgarian: “Храмов хълм”
- Catalan: “Al Haram al Sharif”
- Catalan: “Al-Haram al-Sharif”
- Catalan: “Esplanada de les Mesquites”
- Catalan: “mont del Temple”
- Catalan: “Mont del Temple” (historical)
- Catalan: “Muntanya del Temple”
- Central Kurdish: “مزگەوتی قودس”
- Chinese: “圣殿山”
- Chinese: “聖殿山”
- Chuvash: “Храм тăвĕ”
- Croatian: “Brdo hrama”
- Czech: “Chrámová hora”
- Danish: “Tempelbjerget”
- Dutch: “Haram al-Sharif”
- Dutch: “Moria”
- Dutch: “Moriah”
- Dutch: “Tempelberg”
- Dutch: “Tempelplein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المسجد الاقصى”
- Esperanto: “Monto de la Templo”
- Esperanto: “Templa Monto”
- Esperanto: “Templomonto”
- Estonian: “Templimägi”
- Finnish: “Temppelivuori”
- French: “Har Ha-Bayit”
- French: “Haram ach-Charif”
- French: “Haram al-Sharif”
- French: “mont du Temple”
- French: “Mont du Temple” (historical)
- Galician: “Monte do Templo”
- German: “Haram esch-Scharif”
- German: “Tempelberg” (historical)
- Greek: “Όρος του Ναού”
- Greek: “Χαράμ αλ-Σαρίφ”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Haikali”
- Hebrew: “הַר הַבַּיִת”
- Hebrew: “הר הבית” (historical)
- Hebrew: “הר המוריה”
- Hebrew: “הר מוריה”
- Hebrew: “מתחם הר הבית”
- Hebrew: “עלייה להר הבית לאחר החורבן”
- Hindi: “टेम्पल माउंट”
- Hungarian: “Templom-hegy”
- Icelandic: “Musterishæðin”
- Indonesian: “Al Haram Al Sharif”
- Indonesian: “Al-Haram asy-Syarif”
- Indonesian: “Bukit Bait Suci”
- Irish: “Cnoc an Teampaill”
- Italian: “Al-Haram al-Sharif”
- Italian: “Haram al-Sharif”
- Italian: “Monte del Tempio”
- Italian: “Spianata del tempio”
- Italian: “Spianata delle moschee”
- Japanese: “神殿の丘”
- Javanese: “Al-Haram al-qudsi asy-Syarif”
- Javanese: “Al-Haram asy-Syarif”
- Javanese: “Temple Mount”
- Kabyle: “Adrar n ufakan”
- Korean: “성전산”
- Kurdish: “Çiyayê Perestgehê”
- Ladino: “Ar Abait”
- Latvian: “Tempļa kalns”
- Literary Chinese: “聖殿山”
- Lithuanian: “Šventyklos kalnas”
- Luxembourgish: “Tempelbierg”
- Macedonian: “Храмова Гора”
- Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Tempoly”
- Malagasy: “Tendrombohitry ny Tempoly”
- Malay: “al-Haram al-Sharif”
- Malay: “Bukit Bait Kudus”
- Malay: “Bukit Bait Suci”
- Malay: “Bukit Baitulmaqdis”
- Malay: “Bukit Kuil”
- Malay: “Jami‘ al-Aqsa”
- Malay: “Masjid al-Aqsa al-Sharif”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tempelberget”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tempelhøyden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tempelhøgda”
- Norwegian: “Tempelhøyden”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont del Temple”
- Persian: “کوه معبد”
- Polish: “Al-Haram asz-Szarif”
- Polish: “Góra Moria”
- Polish: “Moria”
- Polish: “Wzgórze Moria”
- Polish: “Wzgórze Świątynne”
- Portuguese: “Esplanada das Mesquitas”
- Portuguese: “Monte do Templo”
- Pushto: “د غره معبد”
- Romanian: “Muntele Templului”
- Russian: “Аль-Харам аль-Шариф”
- Russian: “Мориа”
- Russian: “Мория”
- Russian: “Харам аль-Шариф”
- Russian: “Храмовая гора”
- Serbian: “Храмовна гора”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hramska gora”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hramsko brdo”
- Sindhi: “حرم قدسي شريف”
- Slovak: “Chrámová hora”
- Slovak: “Chrámový vrch”
- Slovak: “Mórija”
- Slovenian: “Tempeljska gora”
- Slovenian: “Tempeljski grič”
- Spanish: “Explanada de las Mezquitas”
- Spanish: “Noble Santuario”
- Spanish: “Monte del Templo” (historical)
- Swedish: “Tempelberget”
- Swiss German: “Dr Tämpelbärg z Jerusalem”
- Tagalog: “Bundok ng Templo”
- Tamil: “கோவில் மலை”
- Thai: “เนินพระวิหาร”
- Tosk Albanian: “Tempelberg”
- Turkish: “Tapınak Dağı”
- Turkish: “Tapınak Tepesi”
- Ukrainian: “Храмова гора”
- Urdu: “حرم شریف”
- Urdu: “حرم قدسی شریف”
- Urdu: “مسجدِ اقصیٰ”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Đền”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Templo”
- Welsh: “Bryn y Deml, Jerwsalem”
- Welsh: “Bryn y Deml”
- Welsh: “Caedle al Asqa”
- Welsh: “Caedle Al Asqa”
- Welsh: “Har haBáyit”
- Welsh: “Har haMoria”
- Welsh: “Haram al-Sharif”
- Welsh: “Temple Mount”
- Western Panjabi: “حرم شریف”
- Western Panjabi: “مسجد اقصی”
- Wu Chinese: “圣殿山”
- Yiddish: “הר הבית”
- Yue Chinese: “聖殿山”
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