In Jerusalem stands a building that has been, at various times, a Jewish temple, a Greek Temple, a Roman Temple, a Christian church, a Persian fire temple, and a Muslim mosque. The Temple Mount, called Haram al-Sharif by Muslims, is now home to the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. Below, the Western Wall remains the holiest Jewish prayer site.

Three religions claim this one location as sacred. The result has been centuries of conflict, negotiation, and uneasy coexistence. The site itself hasn't changed. What changes is who controls access, who can pray where, and how different groups must accommodate each other.

This is sacred space at its most complicated: a place where competing claims to holiness create both violence and, sometimes, surprising cooperation.