Neo World Guide

But soon my thoughts were interrupted. After further consultations, our "masters" have declared that we are allowed to visit the Temple Rocks, but only in small groups - and no pictures! 
Choice we had, and we went to the Temple, photographing it from the outside (Photo 63). 
Temple Rocks - this octagonal building with a gilded dome, was built on the paved stone platform, which rises above the main platform for the Temple Mount. You can get inside for a number of stairs that lead to simulating the gate arkam (Fig. 150). Archaeologists and bibleisty long argued that, to what period is the second platform - First or Second Temple - but virtually all agree that it is not a more recent construction. One reason such a withdrawal - documented fact that, at least in the era of the Second Temple to him with a common platform were twelve steps. Another proof - adjacent building known as dome chains (see Fig. 150) are likely to be in the place where in times Khramov altar was located. The most plausible explanation for the need for the construction of a second platform is as follows: it raised the floor to the top of the Temple of the Sacred Rock that it could set the ark of the covenant.