1619. JERUSALEM – AERIAL VIEW WITH THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE CENTER. HERE STOOD HEROD’S MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE (THE ‘SECOND’ TEMPLE) ON THE SPOT ON WHICH BY JEWISH TRADITION ABRAHAM WAS ASKED BY GOD TO SACRIFICE ISAAC. TODAY THE ‘DOME OF THE ROCK’ MOSQUE, BUILT IN THE 7TH. C. AD. STANDS IN THE CENTRE OF THE MOUNT
Photograph by Zev Radovan
