Hello,
could someone answer me the question why masons and many jews want to build solomon’s temple again?

Thanks for your question.

Freemasons do not want to rebuild Solomon’s Temple. However, there is a connection to it. The historical design of the temple is used in some ways as a model for the design of Masonic Temples. It is also used for allegorical purposes in Masonic Ritual to teach lessons of morality, charity, and brotherly love.

I’m afraid we wouldn’t be able to comment on why any religious or ethnic group would or wouldn’t want to rebuild the Temple.

Best,

Bob Heruska
Forum Administrator.

I am neither wise nor as collected as the Brothers here, but religion aside-

Why would people want to restore the Roman Coliseum?
Why would people want to rebuild the great Gothic cathedrals? 
Why would people want to travel to and study the Templar Castles?
Why would we even bother to study Doric, Greek, Roman, Victorian, Gothic, Egyptian, et cetera- all these different types of historical architecture?
Why would people restore there great grandfathers house even though it is small and modest and out of date with todays electrical and square footage standards?

For the preservation or recreation of history and the remembrance of the good things while avoiding the bad.

I’d like to see it reconstructed, but not where it is going to cause religious strife. I’d like to have it here in America if possible. It is an architectural wonder. Such a feat of ingenuity. I am unaware of any Masonic connection in the effort driving the rebuilding agenda though.

Nemo,

King Solomon’s Temple was built once and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. It was rebuilt by Zerubabbel and remodeled and enlarged by Herod the Great, destroyed again by the Romans. Freemasons are taught in several of our degrees that we are to engage in building the temple; but our temple is within our selves, the spiritual temple of our inner and future life, the “House not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.”