![]() The Well of Souls ( Arabic: بئر الأرواح Biʾr al-Arwaḥ sometimes translated Pit of Souls, Cave of Spirits, or Well of Spirits in Islam), also known in Christianity and Judaism by the time of the Crusades as the " Holy of Holies", is a partly natural, partly man-made cave located inside the Noble Rock (the "Foundation Stone" in Judaism) under the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. "The Cave Under the Great Rock on Mount Moriah" known as the Well of Souls (Illustration from Stanley Lane-Poole's Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt, 1883)
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