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We left Al-Aqsa to see the Wailing Wall portion of the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount is regarded as the Biblical Mount Moriah where God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. It is also the place where King Solomon’s temple was built and later destroyed by Nebecanezar.

Jews returned from exile to build a second temple in this area of Jerusalem. Parts of the retaining walls Kind Herod built to reinforce that temple are accessible today, two thousand years later. The Western Wall or Wailing Wall is the largest retaining wall. Its name originated from Jewish worshipers who mourned the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans in 70 A.D.