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from Citadel of David towards Mount of Olives.To the right on the Mount of Olives is the Jewish graveyard containing more than 60 000 graves.
shot from Mount of Olives. The Temple Mount is allegedly the site of King Solomon's Temple, but also where God is said to have created Man. Today there are two mosques. To the left The Al-Aqsa and to the right The Qubbat As-Sakhrah, oldest building within Islam built in 691 A.D.
The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem old town, Israel.
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He made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to go down.
- Psalm 104, verse 19
(The consequence of Psalm 104 was discussed at length on Meditation on Light)
Several old sages from the first and second centuries pondered; how the sun knows when to rise and set? None of them could offered any relevant answer for over thousand years. Finally on the 13 century Rabbi David Kimhi was able to tackle the conundrum and to come up with a valid interpretation in which the sun, unlike the moon, has internal light source of its own. This akin to momentarily special moment(s) some of you were fortunate to be in - the moment the eye of a person flashed in unearthly colour and you just knew…
Excerpt from seetheholyland.net:
On the right looms the wall of the Temple Mount, with the sealed double portals of the Golden Gate standing out. On the left, the world’s largest Jewish cemetery stretches up the Mount of Olives.
The cemetery’s location follows the Jewish belief that the long-awaited Messiah will pass through the Golden Gate to begin the resurrection of the dead.
In reaction to this belief, Muslims established a cemetery in front of the gate to block the Messiah’s path — and this may also be why the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent sealed the gate in 1541.
During the Second Temple period a high, two-tiered bridge spanned the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount to the Mount of Olives. Across this bridge on the Day of Atonement each year a goat symbolically bearing the sins of the people — the original scapegoat — was led into the wilderness.
The Golden Gate may have been where Jesus entered the city on Palm Sunday. It was probably also the Beautiful Gate of Acts 3:1-10, where the apostle Peter healed a lame beggar.
The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem old town, Israel.
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Die al-Aqsa-Moschee oder Al-Aksa-Moschee auf dem Tempelberg in der Jerusalemer Altstadt gilt als drittwichtigste Moschee des Islams nach der al-Harām-Moschee mit dem zentralen Heiligtum der Kaaba in Mekka und der Prophetenmoschee mit dem Grab des Propheten Mohammed in Medina. Zu der Moschee gehören vier Minarette.
The al-Aqsa Mosque or Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City is considered the third most important mosque in Islam after the al-Haram Mosque with the central sanctuary of the Kaaba in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque with the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed in Medina. The mosque has four minarets.
While visiting Jerusalem we were very fortunate to be able to be able to walk around the Temple Mount area and see the Dome of the Rock Shrine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Muslims believe that this is the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven. It is the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture having been completed in 692 AD. It was built on top of the Foundation Stone on Mount Moriah, which is the place where Abraham was poised to sacrifice Isaac. It is also on top of the site of Solomon’s Temple and the Second Jewish Temple. The platform of the Temple Mount was built in the first century BC by Herod the Great as part of his rebuilding of the second Jewish Temple and Jesus worshipped there. Many believe that this is the site where the third and final temple will be built.
La Cúpula de la Roca es un santuario islámico en el centro del complejo de la Mezquita Al-Aqsa en el Monte del Templo en la Ciudad Vieja de Jerusalén.
Está situado encima del Segundo Templo Judío, que fue destruido por los romanos en el año 70 EC.
La cúpula original se derrumbó en 1015 y fue reconstruida en 1022.
La Cúpula de la Roca es la obra de arquitectura islámica más antigua del mundo.
The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Its construction has been situated on top of the Second Jewish Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
The original dome collapsed in 1015 and was rebuilt in 1022.
The Dome of the Rock is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture.
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Arabic QUBBAT AS-SAKHRAH, also erroneously referred to as the MOSQUE OF OMAR, this shrine in Jerusalem is the oldest extant Islamic monument. The rock over which the shrine was built is sacred to both Muslims and Jews. The Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, is traditionally believed to have ascended into heaven from the site. In Jewish tradition, it is here that Abraham, the progenitor and first patriarch of the Hebrew people, is said to have prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. The Dome and Al-Aqsa Mosque are both located on the Temple Mount, the site of Solomon's Temple and its successors.
The Dome of the Rock was built between AD 685 and 691 by the caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, not as a mosque for public worship but rather as a mashhad, a shrine for pilgrims. It is virtually the first monumental building in Islamic history and is of considerable aesthetic and architectural importance; it is rich with mosaic, faience, and marble, much of which was added several centuries after its completion. Basically octagonal, the Dome of the Rock is more typically Roman or Byzantine than Islamic. A wooden dome--approximately 60 feet (18 m) in diameter and mounted on an elevated drum--rises above a circle of 16 piers and columns. Surrounding this circle is an octagonal arcade of 24 piers and columns. The outer walls repeat this octagon, each of the eight sides being approximately 60 feet (18 m) wide and 36 feet (11 m) high. Both the dome and the exterior walls contain many windows.
Christians and Muslims in the European Middle Ages believed the Dome itself to be the Temple of Solomon (Templum Domini). The Knights Templars were quartered there in the Crusades, and Templar churches in Europe imitated its plan.
The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was initially completed in 691–92 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna on the site of the Second Jewish Temple, destroyed during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The original dome collapsed in 1015 and was rebuilt in 1022–23. The Dome of the Rock is in its core one of the oldest extant works of Islamic architecture.[2]
The Foundation Stone the temple was built over bears great significance in Judaism as the place where God created the world and the first human, Adam. It is also believed to be the site where Abraham attempted to sacrifice his son, and as the place where God's divine presence is manifested more than in any other place, towards which Jews turn during prayer. The site's great significance for Muslims derives from traditions connecting it to the creation of the world and the belief that the Prophet Muhammad's Night Journey to heaven started from the rock at the center of the structure.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it has been called "Jerusalem's most recognizable landmark," along with two nearby Old City structures, the Western Wall, and the "Resurrection Rotunda" in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[8]
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock
The Western Wall, or “Wailing Wall”, is the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people. Located in the Old City of Jerusalem, it is the western support wall of the Temple Mount. Thousands of people journey to the wall every year to visit and recite prayers. These prayers are either spoken or written down and placed in the cracks of the wall. The wall is divided into two sections, one area for males and the other for females.
King Herod built the Western Wall in 20 BCE during an expansion of the Second Temple. When the Romans destroyed the temple in 70 CE, the support wall survived. For hundreds of years, people prayed in the small area of the wall that could be seen. In 1967, following the Six Day War, Israelis dug below the ground of the wall, exposing two more levels of the wall. They also cleared the area around the wall to create the Western Wall Plaza that visitors see today.
www.touristisrael.com/western-wall/15946/
The minaret on the left is one of four on the temple mount. It was built in 1329. Tankiz—the Mamluk governor of Syria—ordered the construction of the minaret called the Bab al-Silsila .