Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate and contribute to covering our server costs in 2024. With your support, millions of people learn about history entirely for free every month.
The Western Wall in Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish learning and memory for over 2,000 years. As the only fragment of the Great Temple to survive the Roman destruction in 68 CE, the wall is omnipresent in the historical Jewish consciousness as it's the most sacred structure in Judaism. While originally built to support the western side of the Temple Mount, it is widely know as the "Western Wall" or "HaKotel HaMa'aravi" in Hebrew.
James is a writer and former Professor of History. He holds an MA in World History with a particular interest in cross-cultural exchange and world history. He is a co-founder of World History Encyclopedia and formerly was its Communications Director.
License & Copyright
Uploaded by James Blake Wiener, published on 17 December 2018. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Wiener, J. B. (2018, December 17). Western Wall in Jerusalem.
World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9743/western-wall-in-jerusalem/
Chicago Style
Wiener, James Blake. "Western Wall in Jerusalem."
World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 17, 2018.
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9743/western-wall-in-jerusalem/.
MLA Style
Wiener, James Blake. "Western Wall in Jerusalem."
World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 17 Dec 2018. Web. 27 Jul 2024.