The wall was originally erected as part of the expansion of the Second Jewish Temple begun by Herod the Great, which resulted in the encasement of the natural, steep hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount, in a large rectangular structure topped by a huge flat platform, thus creating more space for the Temple itself and its auxiliary buildings. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, known also in its entirety as the "Western Wall". Ma'arovi Arabic: حائط البراق, translit.: Ḥā'iṭ al- Burāq, translat.: the Buraq Wall, or Arabic: المبكى al- Mabkā: the Place of Weeping) is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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