List of Jewish temples

The following is a list of temples associated with the Jewish religion throughout its history and development, including Yahwism. While in the modern day, Rabbinic Jews will refer to "The Temple", and state that temples other than the Jerusalem temple, especially outside Israel,^[1] are invalid, during the era in which Judaism had temples, multiple existed concurrently.^[2]

Temples	Location	Establishment	Destruction/Decommission
Iron Age II temple in the City of David	City of David	18th century BCE[3][better source needed], perhaps by Melchizedek.[4][better source needed][5][better source needed]	8th century BCE,[6][better source needed] likely as a result of Hezekiah's reforms.[7][better source needed][8]
Solomon's Temple	Jerusalem	10th–8th century BCE; according to HB: by Solomon.	587 BC by the Babylonians.
Tel Motza temple	Tel Motza	10th–9th century BCE.[9]	Unclear, possibly existed into the 6th century BCE.[9]
Tel Arad temple	Tel Arad	10th–7th century BCE.[10]	Probably destroyed during Hezekiah's reforms.[11]
Bethel temple	Bethel	Sometime after 930 BCE.	Partially destroyed by Jehu (c. 842–815 BC), with its destruction completed by Josiah c. 640–609 BC.
Tel Dan temple	Dan	Sometime after 930 BCE.[12]	Unclear.
Elephantine temple	Elephantine Island	Unclear. Already extant by 525 BCE.[13][1]	Unclear. Letter requesting to rebuild after destruction in 410 BCE[14] sent in 407 BCE.[15] Permission was granted.[14]
Second Temple	Jerusalem	Built by Zerubbabel, with dates given between 516 BCE and 350 BCE.[16] Refurbished and significantly expanded by Herod the Great around 18 BCE.	70 CE by the Romans.[16]
Samaritan temple	Mount Gerizim	450 BCE.[17]	110 BCE by the Maccabees.[17]
Oniad temple	Leontopolis	Unclear, possibly as early as 168–167 BCE.[18]	73–74 CE by the Romans.

Also notable

• The old city of Beersheba had a horned altar, indicating it once likely had a temple.^[19]

See also

• Replicas of the Jewish Temple
• Tabernacle
• Third Temple