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3 days ago · The Temple Mount, which is administered by an Islamic waqf (trust), makes the Muslim sector in the Old City’s northeast the largest of its four quarters. Apart from Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, the quarter is known for its ancient souk (marketplace) as well as its abundance of restaurants and accommodations.
5 days ago · The Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa compound before Friday prayers during Ramadan in Jerusalem, March 22. It is a sacred site in Islam where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have ascended into ...
2 days ago · Dome of Contention. A tour of Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa compound; Why Jews Stopped Sacrificing Lambs for Passover; Israeli Court Is Rubber Stamping Temple Mount Zealots ; The event advertised in the flier promised to take place outside of Jerusalem, in Mitzpeh Yericho, an ultra-religious settlement in the West Bank, and not on Temple Mount. But ...
2 days ago · The Dome of the Rock, the first magnificent monument built by Muslims on the Temple Mount, was constructed about 50 years later. Shaykh Hamza discusses the historical significance of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. According to Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad was taken to the holiest part of the Temple of Solomon ...
1 day ago · A drone view shows the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, at sunrise on the last Friday of Ramadan, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jerusalem’s Old City April 5, 2024. (credit: ILAN ROSENBERG/REUTERS)
18 hours ago · For some Messianic Jews, a very small minority, the ashes of this animal mixed with "living water" are essential for the purification of the site where the third Jewish Temple is to be erected: on ...
3 days ago · 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 .
