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Between Mount Moriah and the Holy Sepulchre: The Changing Traditions of the Temple Mount in the Central Middle Ages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Sylvia Schein*
Affiliation:
University of Haifa

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One of the most surprising but least known results of the Crusaders' conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 was a sudden change of the place assigned to the Temple Mount in the ‘holy geography’ of Jerusalem. The Mount became almost overnight, because of the number of holy traditions concentrated there, one of the most important centres of sanctity in Jerusalem, and therefore one of the most conspicuous holy places on the path of the pilgrims in the Crusader capital.

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