The expansion adds the elevation chain, curved steps and gallery, furnished rooms, altar foundation and ledges, upper and underground passages, detailed vessels, moving golden doors, watch stations, people and optional sound. It remains a study reconstruction: sourced dimensions and reconstructed design choices are distinguished below. Read source ↗
The Women’s Court is the display datum: Mount −6, Israelite court 7.5, priestly court 10, sanctuary 16 amos. The sanctuary remains 100 amos from its foundation base to its crest. The Azarah is 187 × 135; the altar base is 32 × 32, about 4.06% of that total area. The north–south measurement chain leaves 25 amos divided between the southern clearance and pillar band; this model selects 23 and 2. That split is an interpretation. Read source ↗
Fifteen semicircular half-amah steps rise from the Women’s Court. A one-amah step and three further half-amah steps distinguish the priestly court. The four corner chambers are unroofed and furnished for their described functions; the surrounding gallery has a reconstructed access route. Twelve steps rise through the chayl approach. Gallery height, supports and access geometry are illustrative. Read source ↗
The altar distinguishes five- and six-handbreadth measures. Following Rambam, its top is 53 handbreadths above the court and the horns bring its height to 58. The north and west foundation, short returns, ledge, hollow horns, red line, drains and subsidiary ramps are shown. The main ramp is modeled 32 × 16 with a visible gap. Combining its rendered gap and tier offsets yields a 62.38-amah overall projection; the exact reconciliation with the nominal 62-amah source ledger remains interpretive. We do not claim sub-amah precision for this junction. Read source ↗
Twenty-four rings stand north of the altar, with eight pillars, cedar blocks, three tiers of hooks and marble tables. Their counts are sourced; fixture profiles and occupied widths are reconstructed. The kiyor has twelve taps and an illustrative lowering frame. Read source ↗
Walk from Beis HaMoked down to its immersion passage; ascend from the Washing chamber toward the Parvah rooftop pool; explore the Gazis chamber’s outer doorway and marked boundary. The chamber arrangement follows Middot 5:3–4, which differs from Rambam’s north–south allocation. Passage sizes and boundary placements are schematic. Seventy-one council seats illustrate the Sanhedrin. Read source ↗
The mesibbah proceeds along the north, around the west, then eastward along the south toward the upper doorway. Upper maintenance openings and a suspended basket illustrate access for repairs. Cell-level openings and cedar-post roof access are reconstructed routes. Cell counts follow Middot; their bay dimensions and climbing arrangements are not preserved plans. Read source ↗
The shulchan carries twelve loaves, four forked uprights, twenty-eight supports and two frankincense bowls. Porch tables follow Rambam’s marble-and-gold description. The incense altar stands beyond the eastern third of the room, ahead of the table and menorah. The menorah includes three feet, twenty-two cups, eleven knobs, nine flowers and seven lamps; straight branches are a selected interpretation. Its three-step service stone is described in Rambam 3:11. Read source ↗
Gold facing, palm motifs and sculpted winged figures are shown as interpretations, not recovered artwork. Four golden door leaves open from the panel or with E nearby; the cloth has modeled pleats. The paired curtains retain their opposite side openings and can also be drawn aside for study. This animation is not a claim about historical daily practice. Read source ↗
The Foundation Stone is shown without an Ark, consistent with the Second Temple description in Yoma 5:2. The room is twenty amos square. Gold ornament and the stone’s footprint are reconstructed. The winged relief illustrates one reading discussed in Yoma 54a; its precise imagery is unknown. Read source ↗
The Mount has five named gateways, including two Huldah entrances and Taddi’s inclined lintel. The courtyard follows the seven-gate tradition, with separate chamber passages. Twenty-one Levitical and three priestly watch figures represent the source’s counts; placement and guardroom geometry remain schematic. The soreg and chayl are represented around the modeled complex. Read source ↗
Kohanim, musicians, visitors and guards provide human scale. Enable ambient sound in the panel for synthesized fire, water and footsteps; it is muted until requested. The surrounding streets, terraces, hills and groves are an artistic period setting, not an archaeological city map. Josephus, Jewish War 5 supplies broad geographical context rather than these particular streets. Read source ↗
Josephus, Jewish War 5. Educational access throughout the simulator does not represent historical permission to enter.