Jerusalem, ancient city sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, is an architectural wonder with a history of building that extends over three thousand years. It is also a living, vital city - the New Jerusalem, capital of a modern state - whose accomplishments in mass housing, public monuments, private dwellings, and urban planning rival those of venerated past. In this book, David Kroyanker has written the first complete one-volume survey of architecture in Jerusalem, beginning with the vestigial remains of the First Temple Period and passing on through the climactic Second Temple Period, the Roman and Byzantine eras, the arrival of Islam, the Crusader Kingdom, the Ayubbids, the Mamluks, and the Ottomans.