Israel The Temple Mount (5742) 1982 

• 1982 
• Commemorative tokens 

  + 1

  Religious Tokens
• Israel Mint 
• Israel 

4765001

Tokens / Medals

Israel The Temple Mount (5742) 1982

Commemorative tokens, Religious Tokens

1982

Bronze, Tombak

The Temple Mount (in Hebrew & English)

Jerusalem (in Hebrew & English)

59

Mass: 98g Mintage: Edge: State of Israel (Hebrew & English), menorah, and serial number The Temple Mount is Mount Moriah, the religious national center of the Jewish people, the location of the sacred stone (occupied the place of the Ark during the Second Temple), the reputed location of the sacrificing of Isaac. This is where King Solomon erected the First Temple and brought into it the Holy of Holies, the Ark of the Covenant. Seventy years after the Babylonians destroyed the Temple, the Second Temple was erected there by those returning to Zion. In later times, the Romans filled the place with altars to various idols, the Arabs made it into a central shrine of Islam, the Crusaders converted the mosques into churches, the Moslems returned to the Mount in 1871. The Dome of the Rock, where the sacred stone is to be found, and El Aksa, the location of the royal residence during the Second Commonwealth, are among the sacred shrines of Islam. As for Jews, to whom entry to the Temple Mount was barred, the Western Wall, the outer section of the Western Wall surrounding the Mount during the second temple was converted into the place for prayer and mourning over the destruction of the temple - a focal point of Jewish aspirations for complete redemption.