Explore the map to locate Western Wall on world map, The Western Wall is also known as the Wailing Wall in the West, and as the Buraq Wall in Islam, it is a part of old classical limestone wall in the Jerusalem (Old City) that develops section of the bigger retaining wall of the ridge accepted to Christians and Jews as the Temple Mount. Just above the half the Western Wall's overall height, along with its seventeen courses situated down from street level, days from the end of the 2nd Temple era, and is assumed to have been initiated by Herod the Great. The big stone pieces of the lower parts are Herodian, the section of mid-sized stones just above them were fixed at the time of the Umayyad period, whilst the small-sized stones of the upmost section are of further recent date, specifically from the Ottoman Empure period.
