Temple Mount

This guide to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem centers on August 21, 1969, when a young Australian sheep shearer named Denis Rohan slipped into the mosque on this plaza believing he had been chosen to clear the ground for a new temple. It steps back three thousand years to the kings, priests and pilgrims who have crowded this same narrow platform, and forward to how that day still shapes the gates and guards you pass through now. Look at the golden dome and the grey-domed mosque beside it as you cross the plaza.