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The following is a list of temples associated with the Jewish religion throughout its history and development, including Yahwism. While in the modern day, Rabbinic Jews will refer to "The Temple", and state that temples other than the Jerusalem temple, especially outside Israel,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2008-12-04 |title=Ancient Jewish Community Elephantine |url=http://ancientsudan.org/articles_jewish_elephantine.html |access-date=2024-02-14 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204205332/http://ancientsudan.org/articles_jewish_elephantine.html |archive-date=2008-12-04 }}</ref> are invalid, during the era in which Judaism had temples, multiple existed concurrently.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stavrakopoulou |first1=Francesca |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kG_9-vki4ocC&q=%22impression+that+Jerusalem+was+always+supposed+to+be+the+central,+even+exclusive,+temple+of+Yahweh%22&pg=PA112 |title=Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah |last2=Barton |first2=John |date=2010-04-15 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-567-03216-4}}</ref>
{| {{Table}} ! Temples !! Location !! Establishment !! Destruction/Decommission |- ! Iron Age II temple in the City of David | City of David | 18th century BCE<ref>{{Cite web |last= Shukron |first= Eli |author-link= Eli Shukron |last2= Bin-Nun |first2= Rabbi Dr. Yoel |author-link2= Yoel Bin-Nun |title= A Matzevah Temple from the Period of the Patriarchs in the City of Salem, Later the City of David |website= yoel-binnun.com blog |url=https://yoel-binnun.com/a-matzevah-temple-from-the-period-of-the-patriarchs-in-the-city-of-salem-later-the-city-of-david/ |access-date= 15 June 2025}}</ref>{{better source needed |A blog of a rabbi, religious Zionist and settler ideologist, be it with a PhD degree, is not RS. 2nd, Bin-Nun sets Shukron as main author, but based on what? An exchange of opinions with himself. |date= June 2025}}, perhaps by Melchizedek.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The OLDEST TEMPLE in Jerusalem {{!}} Eli Shukron on Melchizedek Temple |website= Youtube |publisher= "Living Passages" Christian biblical tour agency |date= 26 April 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EKaN6FXwVw |access-date= 15 June 2025}}</ref>{{better source needed |A guided tour presentation, be it by a well established archaeologist, given to a group organised by a Christian biblical maximalist US tour agency, is far from RS. |date= June 2025}}<ref>{{Cite web |last= Mitchell |first= Chris |title=Archaeologist Says a Stone Pillar in the City of David is Where Abraham Met Melchizedek |date= 10 July 2019 |publisher= Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) |url=https://cbn.com/news/news/archaeologist-says-stone-pillar-city-david-where-abraham-met-melchizedek |access-date= 15 June 2025}} CBN interview and site presentation by Eli Shukron.</ref>{{better source needed |A presentation, again by Shukron, given to a US Christian biblical maximalist, is far from RS. |date= June 2025}} | 8th century BCE,<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=A Study: A Structure in the City of David was Used for Ritual Practices, During First Temple |date=2025-01-13 |last=Israel Antiquities Authority Official Channel |via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ASjN-AD5e4 |access-date=2025-06-26}}</ref>{{better source needed |Actually a repetition of all tbe previous: 'Atiqot art. by Shukron, seasoned with comments of a messianic "heritage minister". Delete pls. |date= June 2025}} likely as a result of Hezekiah's reforms.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Ritual Complex Dating to First Temple Period Discovered in Jerusalem’s City of David |date= 14 January 2025 |publisher= Israel365 |url=https://israel365news.com/399412/ritual-complex-dating-to-first-temple-period-discovered-in-jerusalems-city-of-david/ |access-date= 15 June 2025}}</ref>{{better source needed |Israel365 is a "Jewish media company [which] puts biblical spin on news for evangelical Christians", according to the middle-of-the-road, traditional-leaning Zionist "The Times of Israel". Far from RS. |date= June 2025}}<ref>{{Cite news |last= Fiske |first= Gavriel |title= In First, Researchers Find Where Jerusalemites Prayed before Temple Became Only Game in Town |date= 14 January 2025 |newspaper=The Times of Israel |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-researchers-find-where-jerusalemites-prayed-before-temple-became-only-game-in-town/ |access-date= 15 June 2025}}</ref> |- ! Solomon's Temple | Jerusalem | 10th–8th century BCE; according to HB: by Solomon. | 587 BC by the Babylonians. |- ! Tel Motza temple | Tel Motza | 10th–9th century BCE.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Tel Moẓa Archaeological Excavation 2020 |url=https://www.telmoza.org/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Moza |language=en}}</ref> | Unclear, possibly existed into the 6th century BCE.<ref name=":4" /> |- ! Tel Arad temple | Tel Arad | 10th–7th century BCE.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tel Arad Temple - Madain Project (en) |url=https://madainproject.com/tel_arad_temple#overview |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=madainproject.com}}</ref> | Probably destroyed during Hezekiah's reforms.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 3, 2020 |author=Christopher Eames |title=Ancient Israelite Cannabis Altar Points to King Ahaz's Worship |url=https://armstronginstitute.org/254-ancient-israelite-cannabis-altar-points-to-king-ahazs-worship |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=ArmstrongInstitute.org |language=en}}</ref> |- ! Bethel temple | Bethel | Sometime after 930 BCE. | Partially destroyed by Jehu (c. 842–815 BC), with its destruction completed by Josiah c. 640–609 BC. |- ! Tel Dan temple | Dan | Sometime after 930 BCE.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sacred Precinct Complex (Tel Dan) - Madain Project (en) |url=https://madainproject.com/sacred_precinct_complex_(tel_dan) |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=madainproject.com}}</ref> | Unclear. |- ! Elephantine temple | Elephantine Island | Unclear. Already extant by 525 BCE.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mondriaan |first=M. E. |title=Anat-Yahu and the Jews at Elephantine |url=https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/40058/Mondriaan_Anatyahu_2013.pdf |journal=Journal for Semitics}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> | Unclear. Letter requesting to rebuild after destruction in 410 BCE<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Rosenberg |first=Stephen G. |date=March 2004 |title=The Jewish Temple at Elephantine |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/4149987 |journal=Near Eastern Archaeology |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=4–13 |doi=10.2307/4149987 |jstor=4149987 |s2cid=162350945 |issn=1094-2076|url-access=subscription }}</ref> sent in 407 BCE.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elephantine Papyri: Petition to Bagoas |url=http://www.kent.net/DisplacedDynasties/Petition_to_Bagoas.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723173238/http://www.kent.net/DisplacedDynasties/Petition_to_Bagoas.htm |archive-date=2011-07-23 |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Displaced Dynasties}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2024}}</ref> Permission was granted.<ref name=":1" /> |- ! Second Temple | Jerusalem | Built by Zerubbabel, with dates given between 516 BCE and 350 BCE.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE |url=https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/faq/destruction-second-temple-70-ce |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=rpl.hds.harvard.edu |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=May 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> Refurbished and significantly expanded by Herod the Great around 18 BCE. | 70 CE by the Romans.<ref name=":0" /> |- ! Samaritan temple | Mount Gerizim | 450 BCE.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Sauter |first=Megan |date=2023-09-17 |title=The Temple on Mount Gerizim—In the Bible and Archaeology |url=https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/the-temple-on-mount-gerizim-in-the-bible-and-archaeology/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Biblical Archaeology Society |language=en}}</ref> | 110 BCE by the Maccabees.<ref name=":2" /> |- ! Oniad temple | Leontopolis | Unclear, possibly as early as 168–167 BCE.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Piotrkowski |first=Meron |title=Priests in Exile |pages=38}}</ref> | 73–74 CE by the Romans. |}
== Also notable == * The old city of Beersheba had a horned altar, indicating it once likely had a temple.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barasso |first=Michele |date=2022-02-14 |title=Tel Be'er Sheva, City of the Patriarchs |url=https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/tel-beer-sheva-city-of-the-patriarchs/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Biblical Archaeology Society |language=en}}</ref>
== See also == * Replicas of the Jewish Temple * Tabernacle * Third Temple
== References == {{Reflist}}
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