A dictionary of the . near last).Kubbet el Abd (by 38).Birket es Sitti et Tireh. [Aceldama. Hakk ed Dumm (south of 84) 453 JER JER stretched to the opposite Mount of Olives,that Christ will sit on the wall and Mo-hammed on the mount as judges, and thatall men will be compelled to pass over theintervening space; the righteous, pre-served by angels, will pass quickly andsafely over, but the wicked will fall andbe thrown into the abyss of hell. The mosque El-Aksa also stands with-in the Haram area, and is a complex pileof buildings, the principal axis of whichforms a right ang
A dictionary of the . near last).Kubbet el Abd (by 38).Birket es Sitti et Tireh. [Aceldama. Hakk ed Dumm (south of 84) 453 JER JER stretched to the opposite Mount of Olives,that Christ will sit on the wall and Mo-hammed on the mount as judges, and thatall men will be compelled to pass over theintervening space; the righteous, pre-served by angels, will pass quickly andsafely over, but the wicked will fall andbe thrown into the abyss of hell. The mosque El-Aksa also stands with-in the Haram area, and is a complex pileof buildings, the principal axis of whichforms a right angle with the southernwall of the temple-precincts. It datesfrom Justinian, but has been seveialtimes partially in ruins and rebuilt. . .The building is altogether 270 feet longand about 198 feet in width. The domeis of wood covered with lead, and thewindows are in part of stained glass ofabout the sixteenth century. Just outside of the enclosure of thenosque El-Aksa, and near Robinsons Irch, is the noted Wailing-place of the. graphs.) Jews. The cyclopean foundation-wallof the temple which bears this name is156 feet in length and 56 feet in of the lowest courses of stone con-sist of huge blocks; above these are fif-teen layers of smaller stones. Some in-fer, and others deny, that these lowerexternal layers are very ancient. Theblocks are certainly old and of vast size,one in the western part being 16 feet, andanother in the southern part 13 feet,in length. On Friday numbers of theJews, old and young, male and female,gather here, kissing the stones, wateringthem with their tears, and bewailing the454 downfall of their city, while they reador repeat from their well-worn HebrewBibles and prayer-books the Lamenta-tions of Jeremiah and suitable Psalms,as the 76th and 79th. The following isan extract from their litany : Leader: For the palace that lies desolate:—Response : We sit in solitude and mourn. L. For the palace that is destroyed:— sit, etc. L. For the wall
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