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Yerusalem disucikan oleh orang Yahudi sejak 3000 tahun,oleh Kristen untuk sekitar 2000 tahun, dan umat Islam selama 1400 tahun. Buku 2000 Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem mendaftarkan 1204 sinagog, 158 gereja, dan 73 masjid di kota Yerusalem.<ref name="Guinn 142"/>
Kota Lama Yerusalem disucikan oleh orang Yahudi sejak Raja Dawud memproklamirkan kita ini sebagai ibukotaibu kota pada abad ke-10 SM. Yerusalem menjadi situs [[Kuil Solomon]] dan Kuil Solomon Kedua. Walaupun tidak disebutkan dalam [[Torah]] / [[Pentateuch]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3136760,00.html|title=Parshat Re'eh: No Jerusalem in Torah – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews|publisher=Ynetnews.com|date=20 June 1995|accessdate=17 October 2011}}</ref> namanya disebutkan di dalam Injil sebanyak 632 kali. Saat ini, Tembok Ratapan, sebuah bangunan dekat Kuil Kedua menjadi situs tersuci kedua umat Yahudi setelah Kuil Gunung itu sendiri.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.thekotel.org/content.asp?id=212|publisher=The Kotel|title=What is the Western Wall?|accessdate=6 March 2007}}</ref> Sinagog-sinagog di seluruh dunia dibangun dengan altar menghadap ke Yerusalem,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schechter.edu/askrabbi/synagoguetemple.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131205934/http://www.schechter.edu/askrabbi/synagoguetemple.htm|archivedate=31 January 2008|title=Synagogues|publisher=Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies|work=Ask the Rabbi|last=Goldberg|first=Monique Susskind|accessdate=10 March 2007}}</ref><ref name="returning">{{Cite book|url=http://www.jewishhistory.com/jh.php?id=AdditionalReadings&content=content/segal_ch12 |publisher=Department of Education and Culture of the World Zionist Organization |title=Returning: The Land of Israel as Focus in Jewish History |last=Segal |first=Benjamin J. |location=Jerusalem, Israel |year=1987 |page=124 |accessdate=10 March 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051223025133/http://www.jewishhistory.com/jh.php?id=AdditionalReadings&content=content/segal_ch12 |archivedate=23 December 2005}}</ref><ref>The Jewish injunction to pray toward Jerusalem comes in the ''[[Orach Chayim]]'' section of ''[[Shulchan Aruch]]'' (94:1) – "When one rises to pray anywhere in the Diaspora, he should face towards the Land of Israel, directing himself also toward Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Holy of Holies."</ref>[[Berkas:Israel-Western_Wall.jpg|jmpl|267x267px|Tembok Ratapan di waktu malam|kiri]]
