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  2. Western Wall - Wikipedia

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    Wailing Wall, Jerusalem by Gustav Bauernfeind (19th century) In 1517, the Turkish Ottomans under Selim I conquered Jerusalem from the Mamluks who had held it since 1250. Selim's son, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, ordered the construction of an imposing wall to be built around the entire city, which still stands today.

  3. Walls of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    Western Wall – also known as the Wailing Wall, the accessible part of the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount; Walls of Jerusalem National Park – a national park in Tasmania, Australia named after the Walls of Jerusalem for having natural rock formations that resemble the Walls

  4. Western Wall Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    Most of the tunnel is in continuation of the open-air Western Wall and is located under buildings of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. While the open-air portion of the Western Wall is approximately 60 metres (200 ft) long, the majority of its original length of 488 metres (1,601 ft) is hidden underground.

  5. Herodian architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall) in Jerusalem was for many years the only section visible of the four retaining walls whose construction was begun by Herod to create a flat platform (the Temple Mount) upon which his Temple was constructed.

  6. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - explained

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    Black flags were raised by Palestinians when Balfour visited Jerusalem and almost 250 Jews and Arabs were killed and many more wounded in August 1929 at the Wailing Wall in a tragedy that became ...

  7. Mughrabi Quarter - Wikipedia

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    In a letter of 30 May that year, headed THE HANDING OVER OF THE WAILING WALL TO THE JEWS, he gave his reasons as follows: We Jews have many holy places in Palestine, but the Wailing Wall-believed to be part of the old Temple Wall-is the only one which is in some sense left to us. All the others are in the hands of Christians or Moslems.

  8. Placing notes in the Western Wall - Wikipedia

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    Notes wedged into the cracks of the Western Wall. The earliest account of placing prayer notes into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall was recounted by Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira of Munkatch (d. 1937) and involved Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar (d. 1743) who instructed a destitute man to place an amulet between the stones of the Wall.

  9. 1929 Palestine riots - Wikipedia

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    The Western Wall is one of the holiest of Jewish sites, as it is a remnant of the ancient Second Temple compound destroyed in 70 CE. [9] [10] The Jews, through the practice of centuries, had established a right of access to the Western Wall for the purposes of their devotions.