[TASMANIANRED]

Excavations alongside the wailing wall underneath the temple mount have exposed the 2000 year old walls of the temple.

Mohamed never visited Jerusalem. He dreamed of it once.

Moslem's have a long history of desecrating religious sites of other faiths by claiming them as their own.

The Church of San Sofia in Istanbul is a Catholic church converted to a mosque.

Temple Mount is covered by a Mosque to deny the most holy site in all of Israel to the Jews.

[tomahawk]

Correct.

The First and Second Temples were on the Temple Mount.

So, too, shall be the Third.

[The_Reader_David]

Excuse me, the Church is called Hagia Sophia and was an Orthodox church before the Ottoman conquest (and is now a museum since the establishment of the Turkish Republic).

[muawiyah]

Hagia Sofia has been a museum for a long time. "Christ Pantocrator" has been revealed after many centuries of having been covered with a Koranic verse.

BTW, we had a thread here the other day where the first Christian church in a town somewhere was built out of a converted pagan temple. They even kept the old stand for the altar where animals were sacrificed but they replaced the top.

Folks do this quite regularly as one world religion moves in to displace another one. Islam is not the first one to do that.

[muawiyah]

BTW, discovering the site of Herod's Temple does not necessarily reveal the site of Solomon's Temple.

[RS]

"The Church of San Sofia in Istanbul is a Catholic church converted to a mosque."

Visit Spain and Portugal and you'll see a lot of Mosques converted into Catholic Churches.... so ?

Interesting article - http://www.cryptojews.com/Ornament.htm

[Lion in Winter]

Saint Sophia Church was an Eastern Orthodox Church stolen by Turks after they murdered the priests and hundreds of thousands Orthodox Christians in Constantinople in the 15th century... about 1465. The Turks proceeded to attempt to destroy ALL Christians in the area who would not convert to islam. Turks were BUTCHERS!!

The Great Schism that separated the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church happened in about 1054.