Hanging on the western wall is Queen Victoria's burial flag, given to the college soon after her death.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

If the western city wall was originally to the east of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, then the western hill, on which it is sited, would have been advantageous to an enemy.

However, a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall could not be immediately adjacent to site of the tomb, which combined with the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

Later a 9-metre ( 29-ft ) high semi-circular wall was erected to guard the western approaches to the town.

The Roman legion surrounded Masada, and built a circumvallation wall and then a siege embankment against the western face of the plateau, moving thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth to do so.

The western retaining wall of the original temple, known as the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall remains in the Old City of Jerusalem and this has been the most sacred site for religious Jews.

The Roman army ( Legio X Fretensis ) surrounds the mountain fortress with a 7-mile long siege wall ( circumvallation ) and built a rampart of stones and beaten earth against the western approach.

View of the western enclosing wall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Image: 0 Sainte Waudru-Mons 1. JPG | Bas-relief on the western wall in Saint Waltrude's Collegiate Church

At the western end the shingle bank rested against a stone ( further east becoming wood ) sea wall which ranged from 4 – 12 feet ( 1. 5 – 4 m ) in height.

The interior of the synagogue is laid out in the Romaniote way: the Bimah ( where the Torah scrolls are read out during service ) is on a raised dais on the western wall, the Aron haKodesh ( where the Torah scrolls are kept ) is on the eastern wall and at the middle there is a wide interior aisle.

The northern wall of the Mount, together with the northern section of the western wall, is hidden behind residential buildings.

A northern portion of the western wall may be seen from within the Western Wall Tunnel, which was excavated through buildings adjacent to the platform.

However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the Temple Mount blocked the eastward route of the main decumanus, a second pair of main roads was added ; the secondary cardo ran down the Tyropoeon Valley, and the secondary decumanus ran just to the north of the temple mount.

* Shaolin Temple is founded ( according to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Dàoxuān, the monastery is built on the north side of Shaoshi, the western peak of Mount Song, one of the four Sacred Mountains of China, by emperor Xiao Wen Di of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.

The Gorgon as depicted on the western pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Artemis Temple of Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

Temple of Hephaestus, a Doric order | Doric Greek temple in Athens with the original entrance facing east, 449 BC ( western face depicted ).

In the 1970s, Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple of Christ, moved more than 1, 000 of his followers from San Francisco to form Jonestown, a utopian agricultural community near Port Kaituma in western Guyana.

Although in the days of the Jerusalem Temple the High Priest indeed faced east when sacrificing on Yom Kippur, the sanctuary within which he stood was located at the western end of the Temple.

: The Buraq Wall ) is located in the Old City of Jerusalem at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount.

Early Jewish texts referred to a “ western wall of the Temple ”, but there is doubt whether the texts were referring to today ’ s Western Wall or to another wall which stood within the Temple complex.

The Western Wall commonly refers to a 187 foot ( 57 m ) exposed section of ancient wall situated on the western flank of the Temple Mount.

Some scholars maintain that this name was actually that of the western district of the city that lay between the great Temple of Ptah and the necropolis at Saqqara, an area that contained a sacred tree.

Artist's depiction of the western forecourt of the Great Temple of Ptah at Memphis.

South of Route 101, Temple Mountain forms the town's western boundary for several miles.

On October 8, 1948 he opened his first donut shop in Temple City, California and earned the nickname " The Donut King " while making a fortune with a chain of Winchell's-branded donut shops in the western United States during the 1940s and 1950s.

The Middle Temple is the western part of " The Temple ", the headquarters of the Knights Templar until they were dissolved in 1312 ; the awe-inspiring Temple Church still stands as a " peculiar " ( extra-diocesan ) church of the Inner and Middle Temples.

The overland route hypothesis, favored by Tang Yongtong, proposed that Buddhism disseminated eastward through Yuezhi and was originally practiced in western China, at the Han capital Luoyang ( present day Henan ), where Emperor Ming of Han established the White Horse Temple in 68 CE.

The City's jurisdiction expanded westwards, crossing the historic western border of the original settlement-the River Fleet-along Fleet Street to Temple Bar.

Some Protestant advocates of an alternative site claim that a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall couldn't be immediately adjacent to the Golgotha site, which combined the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

He became a member of the Inner Temple and practised on the western circuit, being made in 1841 recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

In the former western state, however, the mass of Mount Cameroon reaches almost to the sea.

In western Cameroon is an irregular chain of trees, white waters, and six flags that extend from Mount Cameroon almost to Lake Chad at the southern tip of the country.

In addition, Mount Lyell in western Tasmania, Australia, located in a profitable mining area, bears Lyell ’ s name.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

The western range, the second major region, is the Lebanon Mountains, sometimes called Mount Lebanon, or Lebanon proper before 1920.

In the northern section, few villages are on the western slopes, but in the southern section, featuring Mount Hermon ( 2860 meters ), the western slopes have many villages.

It has a catchment area of 620 square kilometres and opens north-westward into the Baie d ' Harcourt, flowing towards the northern point of the island along the western escarpment of the Mount Panié.

Trudeau himself was elected in the safe Liberal riding of Mount Royal, in western Montreal, succeeding House Speaker Alan Macnaughton.

Last fuel on the western side is at the Mount Dare hotel and store.

The Mount Arlan rises sharply above sea level in the Great Balkhan Range in western Turkmenistan ( Balkan Province ).

* April 14 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus surrounds the Jewish capital, with three legions ( V Macedonica, XII Fulminata and XV Apollinaris ) on the western side and a fourth ( X Fretensis ) on the Mount of Olives to the east.

< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.

Mount St. Helens is west of Mount Adams, in the western part of the Cascade Range.

These measures included construction of underground facilities such as " Mount Weather ", a hollowed-out putatively nuclear-proof mountain in western Virginia with a mailing address in Berryville, Virginia.

Ladakh had earlier granted Bhutan several enclaves near Mount Kailash in western Tibet ; these were monasteries of the Drukpa sect and so fell under the authority of the Bhutanese Je Khenpo and the Shabdrung.

The village of Herschel in western Saskatchewan ( Canada ), Mount Herschel ( Antarctica ), the crater J. Herschel on the Moon, and the Herschel Girls School in Cape Town ( South Africa ), are all named after him.

Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast, providing spectacular views.

The Jin army had a half million men with 150, 000 cavalry but abandoned the “ western capital ” Datong ( see also Badger's Mount Campaign ).