Minharat Hakotel is a tunnel exposing the Western Wall slightly north from where the traditional, open-air prayer site ends and up to the Wall's northern end. Most of the tunnel is in continuation of
Hasmonean Channel at the northern end of the Western Wall tunnel
Route of the Western Wall Tunnel
Women praying in the tunnel at the closest physical point to the Holy of Holies
The Western Stone, biggest stone of the wall
A number of archaeological excavations at the Temple Mount—a celebrated and contentious religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem—have taken place over the last 150 years. Excavations in the area re
Excavations adjacent to Robinson's Arch
Robinson's Arch: the springers are still jutting out of the Western Wall
Concrete supports in the tunnel.
Plan of The Noble Sanctuary (Haram al-Sharif) from "The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem" by Charles Warren