Dome of the Rock, Israel
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What is Dome of the Rock
: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: ''Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah'', Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: ''Kipat Hasela'', Turkish: Kubbetüs Sahra), is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was completed in 691 making it the oldest extant Islamic building in the world. (...)
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"The focal point of any visit to Jerusalem is the one-square-kilometer walled Old City, with its four residential quarters (Christian, Jewish, Armenian, and Muslim) and the enormous Temple Mount, or Noble Sanctuary."
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"The Dome of the Rock is located at the visual center of an ancient man-made platform known as the Temple Mount to the Jews and the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to the Muslims."
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"Tall cypress trees create shady retreats from the glare of the white limestone pavement of the vast 35-acre Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram esh-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary)."
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"'l-?Aq?à )in verse (17:1) of the Qur'an is traditionally interpreted by Muslims as referring to the site at the Noble Sanctuary (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem."
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"XX_PARAGRAPHBREAK_XX At presstime, the Muslim shrines were closed to non-Muslims for an indefinite period, leaving the faithful alone to enjoy the wondrous interiors of stained-glass windows, granite columns, green-and-gold mosaics, arabesques, and superb medieval masonry."
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"Islamic tradition holds that when Muslims first entered the city of Jerusalem under the leadership of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab in 637 ,the ruins of the Temple were being used as a rubbish dump by the Christian inhabitants, perhaps in order to humiliate the Jews and try to fulfill Jesus ' prophecy that not a stone would be left standing on another there (Matthew 24:1-2); Caliph Omar (a contemporary of Muhammad ,who had died a few years earlier), ordered it cleaned and performed prayer there."
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"In a well-known passage of his Book of Geography , [7] al-Maqdisi tells us how his uncle excused Abd al-Malik and Al-Walid I for spending so much good Muslims money on buildings: They intended to remove the fitna ,the 'annoyance,' constituted by the existence of the many fine buildings of worship of other religions."
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"The Dome of the Rock (Qubbet el-Sakhra) in Jerusalem is one of the greatest of Muslim monuments, still sometimes called the Mosque of Omar -wrongly, because it is not a mosque and does not date from the time of Caliph Omar."
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"Rather, it is a shrine built over the rock from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended into heaven."
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"The birth of Ishmael, Abraham’s first son, foreshadowed the emergence in Arabia in the seventh century A.D. of a new religion—Islam—under the guidance of the Prophet Muhammad."
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"The Dome of the Rock marks the spot where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have ascended to heaven."
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"Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad rose to heaven from the rock inside the mosque."
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juha from Finland wrote about Jerusalem one month ago
The old city is obviously the place you want to go. Once you see the ancient walls you just have to be in awe of all the history that has happened in this city. I don't how long you should spend here to see it all. Just an incredible place.
juha from Finland wrote about Western Wall one month ago
Cool history. I especially liked the fact that tho holiest part of the wall was so holy that only a certain high priest can visit it through a cave etc. They tied a rope to him so that if he'd die while in the cave they could pull him out, as the place was so holy that no one else was allowed to visit. Crazy are the things that people do for religion...
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