Where was the Temple Mount?

Rock Moriah - the Foundation rock

 Where was the Temple Mount?
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Rock Moriah, the Foundation rock, at the Temple Mount under the Dome of the Rock in the holy city of  Jerusalem, Israel(photo corrected from achieve c.1900-1920). "According to the sages of the Talmud it was from this rock that the world was created, itself being the first part of the Earth to come into existence. In the words of the Zohar: “The world was not created until God took a stone called Even haShetiya and threw it into the depths where it was fixed from above till below, and from it the world expanded. It is the centre point of the world and on this spot stood the Holy of Holies”. According to the Talmud, it was close to here, on the site of the altar, that God gathered the earth that was formed into Adam. It was on this rock that Adam- and later Cain, Abel, and Noah- offered sacrifices to God. Jewish sources identify this rock as the place mentioned in the Bible where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac. The mountain is identified as Moriah in Genesis 22. It is also identified as the rock upon which Jacob dreamt about angels ascending and descending on a ladder and consequently consecrating and offering a sacrifice upon."~ wikipedia

Abraham and Isaac

Leloir - Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

2007-12-29 Panorama of the Temple Mount, inc Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, from the Mount of Olives. Bienchido

"Because of our sins we were exiled from our country and banished from our land. We cannot go up as pilgrims to worship Thee, to perform our duties in Thy chosen house, the great and Holy Temple which was called by Thy name, on account of the hand that was let loose on Thy sanctuary. May it be Thy will, Lord our God and God of our fathers, merciful King, in Thy abundant love again to have mercy on us and on Thy sanctuary; rebuild it speedily and magnify its glory."~ The Jewish Prayer Book

Aerial photo of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem showing the Proposed Northern,
Central and Southern Sites for the First and Second Temples

"As the navel is set in the centre of the human body,
so is the land of Israel the navel of the world...
situated in the centre of the world,
and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel,
and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,
and the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary,
and the ark in the centre of the holy place,
and the foundation stone before the holy place,
because from it the world was founded."~
Midrash Tanchuma, Qedoshim. 

Where Were the First and Second Temples Located?

 On The Location of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem (Lambert Dolphin and Michael Kollen)

http://www.templemount.org/ http://www.templemount.org/theories.html

• The Temple Mount at the Dome of the Rock (Dr. Leen Ritmeyer, Dr. Dan Bahat)

• The Temple Mount to the North (Dr. Asher Kaufman)

• The Southern Hypothesis Introduced (Tuvia Sagiv)