Note (9) — 40.—Of Jherusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre.

(9.) “called the throne of Salomon.”—This has reference to the site of the mosque of Aksa, previously the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin, built by Justinian in 530. The Russian pilgrim, Daniel, saw it in the wrecked state to which it had been reduced at the conquest of Jerusalem by the Franks, who there met with the most determined resistance on the part of the Mussulmans.—Bruun.