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The Western Wall is one of the most important religious sites in Judaism. Located in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Western Wall forms part of the Foundations of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, which was destroyed in the first century CE.

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Name: Western Wall (Wailing Wall)

Material: Limestone

Size:
Length: 57 m (187 ft) (main, exposed wall); 487.7 m (1,600 ft) (total length of wall)

Height: 32m (105 ft) (total height from Foundations); 18.9 m (62 ft) (exposed height); 45 stone courses, 28 exposed courses, 17 underground courses

Date: c. 19 BCE, Second Temple period (1st half of wall); 7th century BCE (2nd half of wall)

Place of Origin: Old City Jerusalem

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Source and Registration#: Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource (accessed May 4, 2010).

Material: Digital photograph

Size: 2,592 X 1944 pixels (1.66 MB)

Date: 2006

Orit Bashkin

Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago