- Also known as the “Wailing Wall”, the Western Wall is located in Jerusalem.
- It is a famous religious site for Jews.
- The limestone wall was originally erected as an extension of the Second Jewish Temple.
- It was constructed around 19th Century BC by Herod the Great.
- This wall is 488m long.
- It has been a site for Jewish prayer and pilgrimage for centuries, the earliest source mentioning Jewish attachment to the site dating from the 4th century.
- With the rise of the Zionist movement in the early 20th-century, the wall became a source of friction between the Jewish community and the Muslim religious leadership, who were worried that the wall was being used to further Jewish nationalistic claims to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem.
- After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the wall came under Jordanian control and Jews were barred from the site for 19 years until Israel captured the Old City in 1967.
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