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Dome (s) 1. The Dome of the Rock ( Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized : Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically attested religious structure to be ...
In 1187, once he retook Jerusalem, Saladin removed all traces of Christian worship from the Temple Mount, returning the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque to their Muslim purposes. It remained in Muslim hands thereafter, even during the relatively short periods of Crusader rule following the Sixth Crusade .
The rock is located towards the centre of the Temple Mount, a term usually applied to an artificial platform built and expanded over many centuries at the top of Jerusalem's southern hill. The current shape is the result of an expansion by Herod the Great on top of vaults over a summit called Mount Moriah which three millennia ago was the ...
Starting at the Western Wall Plaza, workers dug northward, under the Old City's Muslim Quarter. [8] Beginning in 1968, Israeli archaeologists began excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount, immediately south of the al-Aqsa Mosque, uncovering Roman, Umayyad and Crusader remains. [9] In 1970, Israeli authorities commenced intensive excavations ...
It is believed to have been situated upon the hill that forms the site of the Second Temple and present-day Temple Mount, where the Dome of the Rock is situated. According to the Bible, Solomon's Temple was built on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where an angel of God had appeared to David (2 Chronicles 3:1).
Templum Domini. Knights Templar Seal of the Crusader period, showing the Dome of the Rock on the reverse. [1] The Templum Domini [2] [3] ( Vulgate translation of Hebrew: הֵיכָל יְהֹוָה "Temple of the Lord ") was the name attributed by the Crusaders to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. [4] It became an important symbol of Jerusalem ...
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple ( Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ, Modern: Bēt haMīqdaš, Tiberian: Bēṯ hamMīqdāš; Arabic: بيت المقدس, Bayt al-Maqdis ), refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple ...
The Temple Mount viewed from southeast Map of the Temple Mount; some gates are described in the map. The Temple Mount, a holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem, also known as the al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf or Al-Aqsa, contains twelve gates. One of the gates, Bab as-Sarai, is currently closed to the public but was open under Ottoman rule.