The temple shops or Hebrew plural ''hanuyot'' (חנויות) were buildings near the Temple in Jerusalem mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (B.Shabbat 15a, B.Rosh Hashanah 31a; B.Avodah Zarah 8b). According to the Talmud the Sanhedrin relocated to the temple shops, ''hanuyot'', at some point before the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. The plural ''hanuyot'' is also the word for "shops" in

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. The hanuyot are to be distinguished from the

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or grain storehouse (אוצר 'otsar) for the

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mentioned in the

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. The Talmud indicates that the hanuyot were where the

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s and

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stored the accoutrements for the daily functioning of the Temple. The ''hanuyot'' consisted of a single room along the southern edge of the Mount, almost long and wide. Its single story was high. Mazar (1975) identifies the ''hanuyot'' with the Royal Stoa, a basilica erected by

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at the southern end of his expansion of the

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. When the

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government limited the powers of the

Sanhedrin The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Aramaic: סַנְהֶדְרִין; Greek: , ''synedrion'', 'sitting together,' hence 'assembly' or 'council') was an assembly of either 23 or 71 elders (known as "rabbis" after the destruction of the Second Temple), ap ...

, ca. 30 CE, the Sanhedrin moved from their chambers inside the '' azarah'' (Chamber of Hewn Stone) to the ''hanuyot'' (Talmud Rosh ha-Shanah 31a). The ''hanuyot'' were destroyed along with the Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. Unlike the Temple, which was completely destroyed, a significant portion of the ''hanuyot'' may have survived the destruction as the current

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includes rows of ancient Corinthian columns that clearly predate the Islamic architecture.

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is built out of the ruins of the ''chanuyot'' and includes photographs of the interior. Second Temple 70 disestablishments {{Judaism-stub

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