At first, we are told, they had no church and no particular place of abode, but in the year of our Lord 1118, (nineteen years after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders,) they had rendered such good and acceptable service to the Christians, that Baldwin the Second, king of Jerusalem, granted them a place of habitation within the sacred inclosure of the Temple on Mount Moriah, amid those holy and magnificent structures, partly erected by the christian Emperor Justinian, and partly built by the Caliph Omar, which were then exhibited by the monks and priests of Jerusalem, whose restless zeal led them to practise on the credulity of the pilgrims, and to multiply relics and all objects likely to be sacred in their eyes, as the _Temple of Solomon_, whence the Poor Fellow-soldiers of Jesus Christ came thenceforth to be known by the name of "_the Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon_."[7] A few remarks in elucidation of the name Templars, or Knights of the Temple, may not be altogether unacceptable. By the Mussulmen, the site of the great Jewish temple on Mount Moriah has always been regarded with peculiar veneration. Mahomet, in the first year of the publication of the Koran, directed his followers, when at prayer, to turn their faces towards it, and pilgrimages have constantly been made to the holy spot by devout Moslems. On the conquest of Jerusalem by the Arabians, it was the first care of the Caliph Omar to rebuild "the Temple of the Lord." Assisted by the principal chieftains of his army, the Commander of the Faithful undertook the pious office of clearing the ground with his own hands, and of tracing out the foundations of the magnificent mosque which now crowns with its dark and swelling dome the elevated summit of Mount Moriah.[8] This great house of prayer, the most holy Mussulman Temple in the world after that of Mecca, is erected over the spot where "Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite." It remains to this day in a state of perfect preservation, and is one of the finest specimens of Saracenic architecture in existence. It is entered by four spacious doorways, each door facing one of the cardinal points; the _Bab el D'jannat_, or gate of the garden, on the north; the _Bab el Kebla_, or gate of prayer, on the south; the _Bab ib'n el Daoud_, or the gate of the son of David, on the east; and the _Bab el Garbi_, on the west. By the Arabian geographers it is called _Beit Allah_, the house of God, also _Beit Almokaddas_, or _Beit Almacdes_, the holy house. From it Jerusalem derives its Arabic name, _el Kods_, the holy, _el Schereef_, the noble, and _el Mobarek_, the blessed; while the governors of the city, instead of the customary high-sounding titles of sovereignty and dominion, take the simple title of _Hami_, or protectors.