 In the late 1830s a wealthy Jew named Shemarya Luria attempted to purchase houses near the Wall , but was unsuccessful , as was Jewish sage Abdullah of Bombay who tried to purchase the Western Wall in the 1850s . In 1869 Rabbi Hillel Moshe Gelbstein settled in Jerusalem . He arranged that benches and tables be brought to the Wall on a daily basis for the study groups he organised and the minyan which he led there for years . He also formulated a plan whereby some of the courtyards facing the Wall would be acquired , with the intention of establishing three synagogues – one each for the Sephardim , the Hasidim and the Perushim . He also endeavoured to re @-@ establish an ancient practice of " guards of honour " , which according to the mishnah in Middot , were positioned around the Temple Mount . He rented a house near the Wall and paid men to stand guard there and at various other gateways around the mount . However this set @-@ up lasted only for a short time due to lack of funds or because of Arab resentment . In 1874 , Mordechai Rosanes paid for the repaving of the alleyway adjacent to the wall . 
