Stock Photo - Jewish women washing hands before praying at the Western Wall. The Western Wall, or ´Wailing Wall´, is the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people, located in the Old City of Jerusalem. Western Wall area. Street scene in The Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem´s Old City is one of the four quarters of the walled city. The quarter is home to around 2, 000 people and covers about 0. 1 square kilometers. It is also the location of many tens of synagogues and yeshivas (places of the study of Jewish texts) and has been almost continually home to Jews since the century 8 BCE.