Tisha B’Av 2021 will begin in the evening of Saturday, 17 July

Tisha B’Av is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon’s Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.

Scale model of Jerusalem, with the Herod’s Temple in foreground, during the Second Temple period (circa first century CE), now in Israel Museum.