Robinson's Arch

Above the Tyropoeon street at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount wall is the remains of where a monumental staircase once stood. The staircase was 50 feet wide, 39 feet high and 115 feet in length. It was built as part of the expansion of the Second Temple initiated by Herod the Great at the end of the 1st century BC. It carried traffic up from ancient Jerusalem's Lower Market area and over the Tyropoeon street to the Temple Mount. The overpass was another casualty when the Romans took Jerusalem in 70 AD. The arch is named after Biblical scholar Edward Robinson who identified its remnants in 1838.Read more