What Jewish king is credited with building the first temple of Jerusalem?
Archaeological remnants of the Jerusalem Temple a stone hilltop now known as the Foundation Stone which had been a traditional focus of worship in Jerusalem. Because of the religious and political sensitivities involved, no archaeological excavations and only limited surface surveys of the Temple Mount have been conducted since Charles Warren's expedition of 1867–70. There is no archaeological evidence for the existence of Solomon's Temple, and the building is not mentioned in surviving extra-biblical accounts. Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman argue that the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem was not built until the end of the 7th century BCE, around three hundred years after Solomon.
Temple in Jerusalem Temple in Jerusalem The Temple in Jerusalem was any of a series of structures which were located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. These successive temples stood at this location and functioned as a site of ancient Israelite and later Jewish worship. It is also called the Holy Temple (, Modern: "Bēt HaMīqdaš", Tiberian: "Bēṯ HaMīqdāš", Ashkenazi: "Bēs HaMīqdoš"; Arabic: بيت المقدس "Beit Al-Maqdis"; : "Betä Mäqdäs"). The Hebrew name given in the Hebrew Bible for the building complex is either "Beit YHWH", "Beit