• The Western Wall, known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]...
  • Wailing Wall: A Testament to Lamentation. The importance of this single remaining structure is difficult to comprehend.
  • At least seventeen layers of the Wailing Wall are below the street level, but the massive lower stones, called ashlars, of the visible portion date to the time of Herod.
  • The famous Wailing Wall or Western Wall is a great architectural monument and one of the holiest sites of Judaism and Jerusalem.
  • Today Israel’s Jewish community offers prayers at the exposed Western (or Wailing) Wall. As noted above, this complex is a significant flash point between the two...
  • The Wailing Wall as a Jewish holy place is a modern invention that was selected for Jewish worship by one of the greatest mystics of the Kabbalistic age.
  • The Wailing Wall also referred to as the Wall of tears or the Western Wall is one of the few surviving parts of an ancient fortification in the Old City of Jerusalem.
  • Because of the custom of visiting the Western Wall to mourn and cry over the Temple, since the 19th century, it acquired the name – The Wailing Wall.
  • It’s called the Western Wall, but also called the Wailing Wall, and both names have a history behind them.
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