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I saw this aerial photo of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Nov. 9, 2000
I could see that square clearly in the ruins. I was not surprised
to learn that the area that I believed contained the Temple compound, or
complex, was exactly 600 feet by 600 feet!
Look for the Ophel Ruins at the bottom of this
photo
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here for more information,
plus photo overlaid with temple
diagram.
This is a photo of the East
side of the Ophel ruins.
Excavation of this area began in 1967.
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click on photo for enlarged view
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This is the southern half of a the survey
map by the explorers, Sir Charles Wilson and Charles Warren in 1893.
This map shows the cisterns and structures
underground on the temple mount. It showed the ruins of old gates
under the Mount. I combined it with the picture of the Ophel ruins,
with its exposed gate. Together this map and photo confirmed what
I had seen! Four gates, of North, West, East, and South formed
a 600 foot square area. The same size of the Temple described by
Josephus Flavius an early historian who visited the Temple of Herod before
it was destroyed in 70 AD.
The evidence of these gates and the other evidence
found in these maps and led me to create a diagram of the temple.
Click Here for larger image.
This places the location of the first and second Temples under the Al
Aksa mosque! Not under the Dome of the Rock.
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