Orthodox Jewish children visit the Wester Wall - Jerusalem

Wailing Wall (The labels also the Western Wall by naming Jewish; Hebrew: הכותל המערבי) is a wall that limits the Temple Mount from the west, which forms part of the western wall of the campus of Ocean-Aqsa Mosque, and extends between the Mughrabi Gate in the south, and the school Altnkzip north, a length of about 50 m, and a height of at least 20
Is one of the most famous landmarks the city of Jerusalem, and this wall a prominent place at the followers of the Islamic and Jewish faiths. Recalling in some Islamic sources as the wall that the Messenger of Allah, Mohammad Bin Abdullah Al-Buraq to link to it on the night of Flowers.
Position when the Jews
The impact of the last Jews remaining wall of Solomon's temple. In the opinion of the majority of the Jewish rabbis have access to the Temple Mount off limits to Jews since the destruction of the Temple, so the wall is the closest point of the structure of the place that Jews can pray according to the modern Jewish law. The so-called Arab Jerusalemites the name "Wailing Wall" in relation to the Jewish ritual that was performed off the wall to mourn the destruction of the Temple of Solomon.
It seems from the reports of travelers Jews and Karaites, a Jewish chapel wall became famous at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and the greater its importance in the eyes of the Jews in the nineteenth century to become the most important Jewish religious monuments in the opinion of most of whom. In the eyes of some Jews, especially Israelis, including the wall is a symbol of Jewish national as well.
Before the sixteenth century, Jews were performing their prayers and rituals of mourning the destruction of the structure of the Prophet Solomon in different places on the Temple Mount. The first mention of it is contained in the report of the Christian pilgrims from the city of Bordeaux visited Jerusalem in 333. Traveler says that the Jews gathered annually in front of a stone wall near the Holy Shrine Mahd and lament. In the book of the Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Jerusalem at the end of the twelfth century mentions a Jewish chapel in front of the Dome of the Rock-called "Western Wall" or "Gate of Mercy". The first report that clearly indicates to the prayer which is called the Jews the Western Wall is of 1488 AD by Rabbi Abdia of Bertanura.