No, Ezra did not build the new temple in Jerusalem. The temple was rebuilt by Zerubbabel, a governor of the Persian Empire, around 515 BC. Ezra was a scribe and priest who played a role in the restoration of Jewish laws and religious practices after the temple was rebuilt.
Ezra was from the priestly tribe.
Which city did you have in mind.Answer:The answer you're looking for is Ezra. Ezra, with the participation of Nehemiah and others, rebuilt the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and the city's walls.
He was a just and Godly king, and the Lord God used him to help build the new Temple of God in Jerusalem, as The Bible says in Ezra 5.13 - But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. .
Yes masons were needee by king Solomon to build the magnificent temple in Jerusalem.
The Temple in Jerusalem, which had been built by Ezra after the Babylonians had destroyed Solomon's Temple. In addition, each family celebrated Hanukkah in their homes (and still do).
Two Jewish temples have been constructed in Jerusalem, historically. Both stood at the same location. It's the raised ground immediately to the east of the "Wailing Wall" in modern Jerusalem. That wall is a section of the perimeter boundary of the area on which both Temples stood, and is the only remaining relic of the physical structure of either Temple.
King Solomon oversaw the building of the First Great Temple in Jerusalem.Priest Ezra and Prophet Nehemiah oversaw the construction of the Second Great Temple in Jerusalem and King Herod enlarged and remodeled it substantially around four centuries later.
Solomon oversaw the building of the first Temple. Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerrubabel oversaw the building of the second Temple; and Herod oversaw massive renovations to the second Temple several decades before it was destroyed by the Romans.
The second temple was builded by Herod the Great, the same one as having the infants slaughtered when Christ was a babe. It is said it took forty years to build and was such a wonder people traveled from all over to see it.
Ezra did not rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. It was Zerubbabel that rebuilt the temple after the Babylonian captivity. Ezra went to restore the spiritual life of the nation Israel. The rebuilding of the temple was completed in 516 B.C. and Nehemiah did not return to Jerusalem until 458 B.C. There is a 58 year gap between the end of Ezra chapter 6 and the beginning of Ezra chapter 7. So the temple was finished and in use for 58 years before Ezra came on the scene in Jerusalem.
Ezra was to rebuild the destroyed temple.