THIS third picture is from a photograph of the model of the temple site as it now appears. Here the mosque of Omar has taken the place of the house of the Lord. “The first building within the inclosure is the Aksa mosque, and close to it the mosque for women, once the armory of the Knights Templars. The great mosque shows traces in its architecture of all the phases of ownership it has seen—Byzantine, Crusader, and Saracen.” A comparison of the three pictures which have now been printed will make an interesting study. “It is impossible to know in certain instances the exact architecture of the buildings, but all are agreed that Dr. Schick’s models represent with marvelous ingenuity and faithfulness the great and ancient worshiping places that have stood upon the famous temple site at Jerusalem.”
