Temple Mount model back from Switzerland

TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH (sort of):

Tiny model of Temple Mount returns to Jerusalem

140-year-old model on display near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate, after spending 138 in Basel, Switzerland.

By Nir Hasson (Haaretz)
Tags: Jerusalem East Jerusalem Middle East peace

In one of the rounds of talks between Israel and the Palestinians, the idea came up of dividing the Temple Mount vertically: The Palestinians would get everything aboveground and Israel everything below.

Archaeologist and Jerusalem scholar Shimon Gibson says the next time the subject comes up, the parties should discuss it in Christ Church near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate, rather than in Oslo or Washington.

That's because since Sunday, Christ Church has been displaying a model of the contentious sacred mount. The work has returned home after nearly a century and a half in Switzerland.

The model was made 140 years ago by the architect and archaeologist Conrad Schick, whose work in Jerusalem was supported by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. Its details reveal that its creator had access to places where no Western scholar of his day was allowed.

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Interesting photo. I would like to see one with more detail.