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placed on the barrier beyond which Gentiles were not allowed 

 to pass. 



The site of the Temple is now occupied by the beautiful 

 Mahomedan building in the centre of the Haram 

 The Dome enclosure, and wrongly called the Mosque of Omar, 

 of the Eock. j^^ jg ^ mosque and was built, not by Omar, but 

 by the Khalif Abd-el-Melek in the seventh century 

 The over the Sakhrah or Holy Eock, Its proper name 



Sakhrah. ^yg^g ^]^q Dome of the Eock, and the Lecturer 

 showed a remarkable view of its interior, with the 

 bare rock in the place of a pavement — the rock, once the 

 refuse heap of Jerusalem, but long since cleaned and sweetened, 

 and made holy, and with traditions clustering around it, the like 

 of which appertained to no other rock in the world. Its 

 traditions relate to Abraham, Jacob, and David, and it formed 

 the base of the Holy of Holies in the Temple of King 

 Solomon. 



The President, at the close of the lecture, proposed a hearty 

 vote of thanks to the Lecturer, which was seconded by Lt.-Gen. 

 Sir Henry Geary, K.C.B., Vice-President, and supported by the 

 Treasurer, ]\Ir. A. W. Sutton, by Professor Edward Hull, and 

 the Yen. Archdeacon Potter. The Lecturer briefly replied, and 

 on the motion of the Very Eev. the Dean of Canterbury the 

 thanks of the Meeting were passed to the President for taking 

 the Chair, and the proceedings terminated at 6 p.m. 



■^^■^ The titles given in the insets are those of the chief illustrations 

 shown. 



