Praying is vital. Through it we can communicate with our creator. We can find comfort, healing and strength via prayer. Prayer is practiced throughout the world by many people to various gods. And, prayer is done in many and in any place at any time, but certain places have been established to practice it such as temples and worship places. Now, there something has to happen in ones life that motivates him/her to continue to pray even if he/she is praying to something. The Jews have a wall of which they continually go to pray and insert prayers in, it is in Jerusalem at the temple mount. The temple mount is the second temple erected by king Herod and the first was done by Solomon. The wall is known as the weeping wall. Throughout the ages wherever the Jews were they direct themselves towards Jerusalem to the temple to pray. Like Daniel when he found out the mandate for everyone to worship his statue or be thrown into the lions den, went to his house and knelt in the direction of Jerusalem and prayed (Dan6:16).
2 Chronicles 6:21
21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
Now, Solomon after he built the temple made a dedication service and initiated the pray too Jerusalem idea. In this dedication service he prayed and in that prayer he asked God that if anyone would pray towards Jerusalem that he should heal, prosper and forgive them(2Chro7:17). Jerusalem became a focal point in prayer until Jesus established that a place was no longer needed to engage in prayer when he spoke to the Samaritan women in John 4:21. He told this Samaritan women that worship would no longer take place in Jerusalem but in the spirit. Prayer is a spiritual connection with God where healing, prosperity and freedom takes place. When you are overwhelm with life’s ordeal prayer can be done (ps.61:1-3). Peter and John were threatened by the religious sect because of the preaching of the gospel in Acts 4:31, but after the church prayed the earth shook and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. These days we need the prayer of Habakkuk who prayed for revival (Hab3:1-2).