Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish people since antiquity and is the holiest city on the entire planet in the Jewish religion. Indeed, Jews around the world pray facing Jerusalem, Jewish grooms break a glass on their wedding day in remembrance of the destruction of Jerusalem, and during the Passover Seder, Jews pray to be “next year in Jerusalem.
By tradition this, the holiest place for Catholic and Orthodox Christians, marks the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and Resurrection. It was completed in 335AD, its basilica having been constructed on the foundations of an ancient Roman temple to Venus (Aphrodite).
The Temple Mount is a large, ancient elevated platform in the Old City of Jerusalem with a multifaceted (and sometimes contentious) religious significance. Historically, it took its shape from the construction of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, is one of Judaism's most holy sites and forms part of the western flank of the holy site of the Temple Mount. The wall is the imposing remnant of Jerusalem's Second Temple, which the Romans destroyed in 70 CE. According to Jewish tradition, despite the temple's destruction, the divine presence never left.
Jerusalem’s Zion Gate connects the Old City to Mount Zion, just west of the Mount of Olives, and a place that holds sites sacred to Christians and Jews. The Tomb of King David is located here, as is the Room of the Last Supper, a Romanesque Crusader structure also called The Coenaculum.