The Status Quo of the Temple Mount

The precise location of the temples is not known. Archaeologists dispute whether there was a first temple there at all, but let's leave that scientific debate aside. In the absence of precise knowledge where the temple was located, one cannot know where the holy of holies is. For centuries, jews were forbidden to ascend to the mountain because it lacked sanctity,. and the fear that it would be desecrated by the unpure treading on the area of the holy of Holies. That all changed in 19 67, which required the definition of a status quo on the mount.