Mount Moriah
Where Mount Moriah sits on the map, and the single verse where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Coordinates
- 31.7778, 35.2356
- Mentions
- 1 mention
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Can you visit it today?
The Temple platform is a fourteen-hectare enclosure held up by Herodian walls, with the seventh-century Dome of the Rock over the outcrop at its centre. At the south-western corner the stones toppled in AD 70 still lie where they fell, beside the springing of Robinson’s Arch. The identification of Genesis’ Moriah with this hill comes from 2 Chronicles 3:1, not from archaeology.
- Where it is
- On the eastern flank of Jerusalem’s Old City, overlooking the Kidron valley.
What to read there
The passage that gives this site its meaning, to read while you are here.
Genesis 22, 1-14Open in the readerPassages where it appears
1 verse, in biblical order.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 3:1
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord, in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, as it had been shown to David his father, at the place which David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Routes that pass through here
Tabor itineraries with a stop at this place.