The “Cave Synagogue”

One of the structures damaged in the eleventh-century earthquakes is a Jewish synagogue known as “the cave.” Scholars believe that this synagogue was located inside of one of the surviving Second Temple-period Temple Mount gates known as Warren’s Gate. This gate can still be seen on a visit to the Western Wall Tunnel.

The gate’s arch, which stood at the entrance to the “Cave Synagogue,” is sealed today with concrete. It is located opposite the entrance to a modern synagogue founded by the late Rabbi Yehuda Meir Getz, the rabbi of the Western Wall.