A traveler says: “The greatest curiosity in the interior of the Mosque of Omar is the immense stone from which the name, Es Sakhrah (the rock) is derived. It is a mass of native rock, the sole remnant of the top of the ridge of Mount Moriah, some 60 ft. long by 55 ft. wide, and 10 ft. or 12 ft. high on the lower side. All the rest of the ridge, was cut away when levelling off the platform for the Temple and its courts.”
My reader may dwell with sacred curiosity on all the memories that crowd around this spot.