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Temple Mount: Mosques
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Since construction of an underground mosque on the Temple Mount (... known as the Haram es-Sharif) began in 1999, hundreds of tons of dirt and debris have been dumped in the Kidron Valley. Beginning in November 2004, veteran archaeologist Gabriel Barkay and his student Zachi Zweig have been sifting through this debris to recover whatever archaeological information they can.
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The lower platform — that constituting most of the surface of the Temple Mount — has at its southern end the al-Aqsa Mosque, which takes up most of the width of the Mount. Gardens take up the eastern and most of the northern side of the platform; the far north of the platform houses an Islamic school.[2] The lower platform ... houses a fountain (known as al-Kas), originally supplied with water via a long narrow aqueduct leading from pools at Bethlehem (colloquially known as Solomon's Pools), but now supplied from Jerusalem's water mains. There are several cisterns embedded in the lower platform, designed to collect rain water as a water supply. These have various forms and structures, seemingly built in different periods by different architects, ranging from vaulted chambers built in the gap between the bedrock and the platform, to chambers cut into the bedrock itself. Of these, the most notable are (numbering traditionally follows Wilson's scheme[3]):
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During the last weeks there are renewed construction activities on the Temple Mount. In Israel there is a feeling that control over the Mount is lost. There are rumors about the digging of a water sewer, a mysterious white building and a fourth mosque.
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