Western Wall

American  

noun

1. a wall in Jerusalem where Jews, on certain occasions, assemble for prayer and lamentation: traditionally believed to be the remains of the western wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70.

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Western Wall British  

noun

1. Also called: Wailing Wall.  Judaism a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage

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Western Wall

Below the compound, alongside its supporting Western Wall, Jews pray and mourn the destruction by the Romans of the Jewish Temple on the platform above, almost 2,000 years ago.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

In 1993 Pope John Paul II formally recognized Israel, and in 2000 he placed a letter of apology for past Jewish suffering in a Western Wall crevice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

AFP journalists at the scene saw the damage just a few hundred metres from Jerusalem's revered holy sites of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

The march winds through Jerusalem’s Old City toward the Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest sites.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

We’ll have to count on the Western Wall.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank