According to the Talmud, it was close to here, on the site of the altar, that God gathered the earth that was formed into Adam.
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Jewish sources identify this rock as the place mentioned in the Bible where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.
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It is also identified as the rock upon which Jacob dreamt about angels ascending and descending on a ladder and consequently consecrating and offering a sacrifice upon.
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Archaeologist Leen Ritmeyer noticed that there are sections of the rock cut completely flat, which north-to-south have a width of 6 cubits, precisely the width that the Mishnah credits to the wall of the Holy of Holies, and hence Ritmeyer proposed that these flat sections constitute foundation trenches on top of which the walls of the original temple were laid.
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The foundation stone was blessed by Achile Cardinal Silvestrini (Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches), and laid by Rt.
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Construction of the port formally started on March 23, 1905 when King Nikola I, on board on the yacht "Rumija", plunged a foundation stone, on which his initials and the date were carved in, into the sea.
On 29 September 1956 Lady Brooks, the wife of General Sir Dallas Brooks, Governor of Victoria, laid the foundation stone for the new school buildings at Burwood, and the Senior School moved in 1958.
The foundation stone for the third building, replacing the original home of the club, was laid by President Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma on February 13 1996.
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The foundation stone was laid on 30 June 1837 by Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.
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In 1888 Lord Carrington, as State Governor (also Grand Master Freemason of the United Grand Lodge in NSW), laid the foundation stone of Sydney's Trades Hall.
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