(JNS) A woman praying in the egalitarian prayer plaza was narrowly spared from death when a 220-pound stone fell out of the Western Wall and plummeted to the ground.

Officials from the Israel Antiquities Authority immediately sent inspectors, archaeologists, conservationists and engineers to the site, and have closed off a portion of the plaza until safety can be assured.

The breakage comes just a day after the Western Wall plaza was filled with worshippers marking Tisha B’Av—a day of fasting and mourning the destruction of the two holy Jewish Temples at the site.