Was one of a series of structures which were historically located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock. Historically, these successive temples stood at this location and functioned as the centre of ancient Israelite and later Jewish worship.
Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity. A Roman Legion camped there in 66 AD. Again in 70 AD Mount Scopus was used as a base to carry out a siege of the city by the 12th, 15th and 5th Legions (the 10th legion's position being on the Mount of Olives). The Crusaders used it as a base in 1099.
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