What Was The Wailing Wall Built For. The famous wailing wall or western wall is a great architectural monument and one of the holiest sites of judaism and jerusalem. Interestingly, jews in hebrew do not refer to it by this name, rather they call it the western wall apparently, in other languages it became known as the wailing wall, due to other nations seeing jews crying and praying near the wall.
The wailing wall is part of the original foundation of the courtyard that surrounded the ancient jewish temple.
The wall was a surprise because in the june of that year (1961), walter had stated that no one has the intention of erecting a wall but in august a wall had be built under instruction from soviet before the first wall was built in august, the east used barbed wired, at first, to prevent the mass movement. It is the last standing wall from solomon's temple in jerusalem. Now every saturday many israeli settlers. Interestingly, jews in hebrew do not refer to it by this name, rather they call it the western wall apparently, in other languages it became known as the wailing wall, due to other nations seeing jews crying and praying near the wall.