Temple Mount

Rechov Hashalshelet

• Junction of Cardo and Decumanus (Tetrapylon)

Han Hasultan

• Mamluk Sultan Barkuk (Cherkesi)

• 14th century

• Mujir a-din (15th century historian) - chains at entrance to Han that seals at night

Chain Road

• Madrasa Tashtamoria - Built by Batal (treasurer of Barkuk and also his Turba)

• Wooden porches from 19th Century

• Kizan Mashrabia

• Madrasa Tazia - Tankiz Cup

• Berke Khan 1232 - Kaladia Library of manuscripts

• Illustration of Grand Causeway

• Mameluk Madrasa - Architecture

  • Pishtak - Portal

  • Borrows from persian - eclectic

  • Ablak

  • Mukarnis

  • Klebo (puzzle)

  • Mastaba (Bench)

  • Turquois - from Turkish Seljuks

  • Iwan

  • Window bars

Davidson Park

• Umayyad Palaces

• Hulda Gates

“To Titus Aelius Hadrianus
Antoninus Augustus Pius
The father of the fatherland, pontifex, augur
Decreed by the Decurions”

• Norma Robertson map

• Warren's Map

• Robinson's Arch

Intro to Temple Mount

• Mitzva to ascend the mount לְשִׁכְנ֥וֹ תִדְרְשׁ֖וּ וּבָ֥אתָ שָּֽׁמָּה׃ דברים י"ב

  • • Ramban

• God's Presence in the West

• "Holy" sites - Rambam

• Timeline

• 10 Miracles of temple

• Traditions (Foundation stone, Noa's alter, Binding of Isaac)

• Map of mount

• Old Aerial Photo of mount

• Halachik Location - Ritmeyer

• Hebrew map of mount

Riwaq - Arcade - Stoa

• Riwaq from early Mameluke

• Muslim recognition of Jewish Jerusalem

  • Masjid El Buraq - Night Journey

  • Surah 17

  • Full story in Hadith

  • Name of Jerusalem - Al Kuds

  • "When we reached Bait al-Maqdis "

Al Aqsa

Timeline

711 - Al-Waleed builds Al Masjid Al-Aqsa

746 - Completely destroyed by earthquake

754 - Al-Mansur rebuilds

1033 - Earthquake destroys most and rebuilt 1035 - Current size (half of Al-Mansur)

1099 - Crusaders conquer Jerusalem

1120 - Knights Templar convert to headquarters - Templum Salomonis

• Illustrations

• Facade

• Al Aqsa Al Qadima

• Templum Solomonis

Al-Kas

• Mameluke - Nasser a-din Muhammad 1309 - 1341

• Amir Tankiz - his officer and builder (dies 1337)

• Water from Solomon's pools

• Hadrian's Equestrian Statue

Solomon's Stables

• El-Marwani Mosque

• Muslims cleared out filler rubble.

Mastaba

• Sabra wa Shatila 16 september 1982

• There are 24 on the mt.

• Regardless of what the investigation found, according to the muslims, Israel perpetrated the massacres

Scattered Construction Materials

• 2003 Israel returns to themselves control of what happens on the mt.

• Since then, nothing happens without the approval of antiquities authority

• The muslims are pleading with the Israels to remove the refuse

Mercy Gate

• Christian Tradition - Shoshan (golden) Gate where Jesus entered Jerusalem

• Jewish tradition - Messiah will enter through this gate

• Gate cannot be defended ?

• Herbert Bussa - 629 Herraclius enters with cross

  • Triumphal gate

Dome of the rock

• Chain Dome

• Foundation Stone

• Arches - Almizan (Scales)

• Antonia?

  • Praetorium

Chain Gate (Portas Spatioza)

• Name indicates Wide gate

• Entry point for grand causeway and aqueduct

Al- Madrasa Asharafia

• 39 Madrasot in Jerusalem

• Mamluke aristocrats needed to prove their religious dedication

• This one was latests

• Kayitbay

Sabil Kaytbay

• Hadith - he who has flowing water and does not provide it to the thirsty, Alla will skip over him on the day of resurrections.

• Nicest Mameluke sabil in Israel

• Water from same aqueduct

Chain Minneret (Mithanat Silsila)

• Tankiz

Madrassa Othmania

Cotton Gate

• Tankiz

• (1329) - Market (suk el qatanin)

Hussein Graves

• Palestinian Pantheon

  • Hussein Bey al-Husayni - Mayor of Jerusalem

  • Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

  • Faisal al-Husseini

Sharif Hussein of Mecca

• Father of Abdala king of Jordan

El Omaria School

• Stone removed to produce flat platform

• Antonia

• Praetorium

• Part is Madrasa Jaullia

Solomon's Throne (Kursi Suliman)

• Piece of Shtia stone dropped there

Machkeme

• Al Madrasa Tankeziah

• Early 14th century

• Officer Nasser a-din Muhamad

• Becomes Shariah Court (al Mahkeme) till 67

• Top floor overlooks har habayit

• Windows on Kotel

• 1967 - locals leave when officers enter with woman soldiers. Muslim clerics cannot be under woman.

• Pluga gimel Magav

• Impluvium

• 4 Ivans

  • Kible (Southern) largest

• Schools of Sunni thought

  • Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali

Madrasa Ascent

• Masjad A-Rasasi (lead) - Columns covered with lead

• Atakia

  • Massive

  • Built by Tunshuk (wife of city commander Taki a-Din) based in the fortress at David's Citidel

  • She was fed up with the fortress and builds a massive palace

  • Is buried across the road - Turba (was decorated with red marble)

  • Hasake Sultan - Rokselane

    • Christian that was taken captive by Suliman and brought to his harem

    • When he saw her, she was so struck by her beauty that decided to convert her and make her his wife

    • Hasakey (convert) Harem Sultan

    • She travels with him to Jerusalem

    • Fell in love with the place. Took this palace, enlarged it and stayed there each time she came to Jerusalem.

    • She turns the palace into a soup kitchen for the needy (Takiya) - That is the reason for the name of the rd.

    • Till she dies in 1558 with the real leader of the Ottoman empire

    • She has a massive tomb in Istanbul

    • Converted by the Ottomans as a Saraya

    • 1920s converted to orphanage and vocational school

    • Separate entrances for men and woman