Begun in 1563, the Escorial was the biggest building and artistic project in Europe, and modelled on an imaginary concept of Solomon's temple in Jerusalem.

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King Solomon built his famous temple in Jerusalem with the wood of cedar trees cut and hauled from Lebanon.

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Still, the 7th century Al-Aqsa mosque was built atop an earlier Christian church, which in stood astride a Roman temple, all of which stood on the platform built by king Herod to house the second Jewish temple, which itself replaced the temple of Solomon, built around 900 BCE.

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