In the Center is the Holy of Holies. Robinson's Arch is visible in the nearest corner of the mount. First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod ...
the holy city of Jerusalem was also threatened by the Romanizing instincts of their ruler. Tension focused on the Second Temple there, a building that symbolizes Herod’s complex relationship ...
The Virgin is clearly made manifest in the temple of God and foretells Christ to all ... Then, Zacharias brought the child into the Holy of Holies—a place where only the High Priest was permitted to ...
Department of Religious Education (DRE)’s Did You Know?: Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple Did you know that our knowledge about the life of the Theotokos comes from Holy Tradition?