在公元70年第二圣殿被毁之后，犹太教徒希望能在圣殿山上建造第三圣殿（希伯来文：בית המקדש השלישי，拉丁化希伯来文：Beit haMikdash haShlishi）。祈祷神对此事的应允是犹太教每日三次的祷告中正式的一部分。尽管圣殿尚未建成，其概念和犹太人对其建立的渴望在犹太教（尤其是正统犹太教）中仍是神圣的。《塔纳赫》中记载了先知对第三圣殿建立的预言，称其会在弥赛亚时代被实现。
Fendel, Hillel. Israeli Sheikh: Temple Mount is Entirely Islamic. Arutz Sheva. November 6, 2006 [2006-11-12]. （原始内容存档于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.)
