Your way off with no historical data to back up your claim.

The fact is the Byzantines built a church over the Praetorium (The Rock of the Dome of the Rock) known as the Church of St.Cyrus and St.John.This church was enlarged in later times (certainly by the time of Justinian) to be called The Church of the Holy Wisdom (Saint Sophia).

In the sixth century, during the time of Justinian, the Piacenza Pilgrim visited Jerusalem. He identified this Church of the Holy Wisdom with precision. He said it was at the site of the former Praetorium of Pilate. He also mentioned a significant architectural feature over which that Church had been built. It was an "oblong rock" on which the people (in the sixth century) believed that they could see the footprints of Jesus as indentions in the rock. That Church was built specifically and exclusively to be situated directly over that important "Rock."


The Temple actually sat south of this "rock" the Muslims built upon these former chuches and the error of the "rock" being the site of the Temple contuines til this day. As evident that the Jews are praying at a retaining wall of a Roman fort



"Life of Constantine," recorded in Wilkinson’s Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades, p.204.


Sophronius, Antacroeontica by Wilkinson in Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades, p.91.



account by the first Christian Arab historian by the name of Said b. al-Bitrik (whose Greek name was Eutychius) cited by D.Baldi, Enchiridion Locorum Sanctorum, pp.447,448 and further cited in the book by Prof. F.E.Peters, Jerusalem, Princeton. NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp.189,190