The Temple Institute's golden menorah, on the stairway down from the Jewish Quarter to the plaza, facing the Har HaBayit: made to serve in a rebuilt Temple. Over two metres tall, half a ton including forty-five kilograms of gold, three feet and seven branches, in a glass case.
Dimensions
- location from OpenStreetMap
- over two metres, half a ton, 45 kg of gold (joelfeld.com)
Sources
- Exodus 25:32“וְשִׁשָּׁה קָנִים יֹצְאִים מִצִּדֶּיהָ שְׁלֹשָׁה קְנֵי מְנֹרָה מִצִּדָּהּ הָאֶחָד וּשְׁלֹשָׁה קְנֵי מְנֹרָה מִצִּדָּהּ הַשֵּׁנִי”
Project decisionChoice of the tour: its node. OpenStreetMap carries two, and the other falls inside a building's footprint. Its branches are curved like those of the menorah on display; the Institute made a second one with straight branches after the Rambam's drawing (Israel365 News), and that drawing is what the tour's Menorah in the Heikhal follows. The glass case is not modelled.