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Dome of the Rock History
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the first Muslim masterpiece, was built in 687 A.C. by Caliph Abd al-Malik, half a century after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (s). The rock marks the site from where Prophet Muhammad (s) made his Miraaj or Night Journey into the heavens and back to Makkah (Qur'an 17:1). The Dome of the Rock presents the first example of the Islamic world-view and is the symbol of the oneness and continuity of the Abrahamic, i.e. Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith.
Travelers and pilgrims have compared the cupola to a mountain made up of supernatural light, or else to a sun when its gold glitters in the dazzling light of Palestinian mornings, noons, and dusks, with endless variations in the intensity of shades. The atmosphere of beauty that prevails in the Dome of the Rock is like a distant announcement of the destiny of paradise.
Mosque of Omar. Oldest existing Islamic monument
Qubbat al-Sakhra. Dome of the Rock. Muslim shrine erected circa 692 in the Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem. Symbolically placed as an Islamic visual challenge to the nearby dome of the Holy Sepulcher, the domed structure was built by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik on the site of the rock (sakhra) where, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad departed for his mystical journey (miraj) to heaven and hell. The annular plan, closely related to Roman and Byzantine antecedents, consists of two ambulatories around the central domed space. Complex vegetal decoration and Arabic inscriptions in mosaic decorate the interior.
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Dome of the rock in Jerusalem It was built between 687 and 691 by the 9th Caliph, Abd al-Malik. For centuries, European travelers have called it the Mosque of Umar.
The Dome of the Rock in the center of the dome is believed by Muslims to be the spot from which Muhammad ascended for a night-long journey to Heaven in AD 621, accompanied by the angel Gabriel.
Dome of the Rock
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In Judaism the stone is the site where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac
In Christianity, in addition to Jesus's actions in the temple, it is believed that during the time of the Byzantine Empire, the spot where the Dome of the rock jerusalem
was later constructed was where Constantine's mother built a small church, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.
The gold dome stretches 20 metres across the Noble Rock, rising to an apex more than 35 metres above it. The Qur'anic verse 'Ya Sin' is inscribed across the top in the dazzling tile work commissioned in the 16th century by Suleiman the Magnificent.
Under Jordanian rule of Jerusalem, Jews were forbidden from entering the Old City. Israel took control of the Dome of Rock during its victory in the Six Day War in 1967.
The Dome of the Rock (Arabic - Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew Kipat Hasela, is an Islamic shrine in what Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary (al-Haram al-Quds al-Sharif, Arabic which Jews and Christians call Har ha-Bayit Hebrew or the Temple Mount - it remains one of the best known landmarks of Jerusalem.
According to a posthumously-published interview with Haaretz, General Uzi Narkiss reported that on June 7, 1967, a few hours after East Jerusalem fell into Israeli hands, Rabbi Shlomo Goren had told him "Now is the time to put 100 kilograms of explosives into the Mosque of Omar so that we may rid ourselves of it once and for all." His request was denied.
