Date: July 24th, 2026 3:45 PM Author: cerise principal's office
I tried to walk in there to check it out about 20 years ago. Plenty of muslim bros were just walking in and out. Kids were running around playing. 2 Israeli soldiers stopped me and said I couldn't go.
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:25 PM Author: cerise principal's office
Did you make it to the doorway of the mosque itself? I was trying to walk into the area where the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque are, and the soldiers stopped me just outside the big courtyard that they're in.
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: Sickened Sinister Base
10-15 yrs ago, but non-muzzie tourists have always been allowed to go on the temple mount during certain limited visiting hours and that's still the policy. there's a separate entrance for muzzies and non-muzzie tourists. the tourist entrance is closed if there are wars going on, or shit like fridays during prayer times. but plenty of birdshit tourists go up on the temple mount no problem.
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:57 PM Author: cerise principal's office
I was there in the pre-internet everywhere days and didn't have great info. I knew enough to avoid Friday, and I don't think it was a muslim holiday. I just walked up to an arched gateway at random and they turned me away.
that sucks u didnt maek it. it's amazing up there to see the scale of it. i didnt realize how huge the temple mount is. you'd think it's small because what we know as the western wall is basically the length of a football field. i knew that was a small chunk of what it was, but it's hard to picture until you're up there.
plus knowing all the history that's up there. surreal.
Date: July 24th, 2026 5:13 PM Author: cerise principal's office
The walkway on the right of that pic? I went to the Western Wall, too, ofc, and had no idea that there was an entrance available to the Temple Mount from there. (As an aside, LJL at the comparatively tiny women's area in the pic.)
The archway I went up to was right outside the Dome of the Rock, so I got to see that fairly up close. Would have been cool to explore more. Cool that you got to.
Date: July 24th, 2026 5:53 PM Author: cerise principal's office
I can't believe I missed that. I had no idea. I vaguely recall that the covered walkway ramp was there and thinking it was an ersatz archeological site or something.
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Charismatic resort
But is every poster on this forum so extreme? One who applauds the disturbing of a sensitive status quo? Another who himself tried to do so? And another who calls for a Hitler-modeled genocide to befall the area?