How often did people go to King Solomon's Temple and why did they travel long distances to visit King Solomon's temple?

Answer 1

Jews were commanded to go there three times a year (Deuteronomy ch.16).

Answer 2

The Torah commands the Jews to go to the Holy Temple three times a year (Deuteronomy ch.16).

Jews who lived outside the Holy Land, as well as non-Jews, did not have an obligation to visit the Holy Temple, though many of them made an effort to go there at least once.

Answer 3

People cannot visit King Solomon's Temple since it was destroyed by the Babylonians when they invaded Israel and took them captive. This occurred in 588 BC, towards the end of the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon.

Answer:

The custom of praying at the Western Wall is in order to pray to God near the site of the Holy Temple (Whose lower rows of stone can still be seen to this day).

Answer 4

3 times a year