The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem
Being the Substance of Two Lectures, Delivered in the Royal Institution

This 1865 publication presents Fergusson's controversial views on the location of two of Jerusalem's most important religious buildings.

James Fergusson (Author)

9781108080637, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 2015

172 pages, 30 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.23 kg

Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture. The topography and temples of ancient Jerusalem also fascinated him. This 1865 collection of two lectures summarises his controversial topographical and architectural argument that the location where Constantine erected the original Holy Sepulchre was the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Fergusson then describes the Temple in its successive forms, arguing against the view that the rock known as the foundation stone was the site of the Jewish altar. The work is illustrated throughout with plans and drawings. Fergusson's Cave Temples of India (1880) and the two-volume revised edition of his History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (1910) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Preface
Part I: 1. Introductory
2. Architecture
3. History
Part II: 1. Introductory
2. The temple
3. Local indications
4. History
Conclusion
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Archaeology by period / region [HDD]