Temple Facade

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bar-kochba-coin-small.jpg Here is where the sacrifices were made. Its Facade was 165 feet high and wide and was built of 3 kinds of marble, with a foundation of blue stones. Josephus described the Temple as resembling "a snowy mountain glittering in the sun."

 

 

 

First Century Jerusalem

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