Overview
by aish.comToday, you will be travelling through those tunnels. Your virtual footsteps will trace thousands of years of history.
Today, you will be travelling through those tunnels. Your virtual footsteps will trace thousands of years of history.
Once called the "Wailing Wall", the Western Wall of the Temple Mount is referred to in Hebrew as the "Kotel", the "Wall."
The fluorescent brightness of modern life instantly falls away. We are inside the tunnels now.
At this point we enter a very long, straight passage. It is known as "The Tunnel".
We will now explore three waterways that brought and held water for the people, the Temple and their needs.
This originally was a promenade that ran the full length of the Western Wall.
At the end of the Hasmonean aqueduct we come to a large pool called the Struthion Pool.
As you near the metal of the turnstile, you can't help but marvel at the modern miracle of the Jewish people's return to their land.