在公元70年第二聖殿被毀之後，猶太教徒希望能在聖殿山上建造第三聖殿（希伯來文：בית המקדש השלישי，拉丁化希伯來文：Beit haMikdash haShlishi）。祈禱神對此事的應允是猶太教每日三次的禱告中正式的一部分。儘管聖殿尚未建成，其概念和猶太人對其建立的渴望在猶太教（尤其是正統猶太教）中仍是神聖的。《塔納赫》中記載了先知對第三聖殿建立的預言，稱其會在彌賽亞時代被實現。
^Fendel, Hillel. Israeli Sheikh: Temple Mount is Entirely Islamic. Arutz Sheva. November 6, 2006 [2006-11-12]. （原始內容存檔於2006-11-14）. We remind, for the 1,000th time, that the entire Al-Aqsa mosque, including all of its area and alleys above the ground and under it, is exclusive and absolute Muslim property, and no one else has any rights to even one grain of earth in it.
Ben F. Meyer. "The Temple at the Navel of the Earth," in Christus Faber: the master builder and the house of God. Princeton Theological Monograph Series no. 29. Allison Park, Pa.: Pickwick Publications, 1992. (Arguing that, for Jesus, the real referents of the imagery of biblical promise—Zion, or cosmic rock and, on it, God's gleaming temple of the end of days—were himself and his messianic remnant of believers.)
