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Haj Amin al-Husseini, appointed Grand Mufti by the British in 1917, along with Yaqub al-Ghusayn, implemented the restoration of the Dome of the Rock and the Jami Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. Parts of the Dome of the Rock collapsed during the 11 July 1927 earthquake , and the walls were left badly cracked, [ 57 ] damaging many of the repairs that had ...
Muslims pray at the Mihrab, a niche in a wall indicating the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, at the Foundation Stone, located under the Dome of the Rock in the Al- Aqsa mosque compound in ...
Al-Aqsa (/ æ l ˈ æ k s ə /; Arabic: الأَقْصَى, romanized: Al-Aqṣā) or al-Masjid al-Aqṣā (Arabic: المسجد الأقصى) [2] is the compound of Islamic religious buildings that sit atop the Temple Mount, also known as the Haram al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Dome of the Rock, many mosques and prayer halls, madrasas, zawiyas, khalwas and other domes ...
Qubbat al-Sulaibiyya in Samarra, Iraq, the oldest surviving Islamic domed mausoleum (9th century) [1] [2]. A qubba (Arabic: قُبَّة, romanized: qubba(t), pl. قُباب qubāb), [3] also transliterated as ḳubba, kubbet and koubba, is a cupola or domed structure, typically a tomb or shrine in Islamic architecture.
Dome of the Chain (Arabic: قبة السلسلة, romanized: Qubbat al-Silsilah; Hebrew: כיפת השלשלת, romanized: Kippat HaShalshelet) is an Islamic free-standing domed building located adjacently east of the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is one of many small buildings that can be ...
Other elements come from the Hassan Tower Mosque, the Dome of the Rock (also known as Qubbat al Sakhra 688–692 AD), the Great Mosque of Madina (705–710 AD), Kairouan Mosque in Tunisia (663 AD), the Great Mosque of Damascus (705–715 AD), the Great Mosque of Cordoba (785–786 AD), Quarawiyyin Mosque (956 and 1135 AD) in Morocco, the Great ...
The Qubbat az-Zum Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد قُبَّة ٱلزُّوْم, romanized: Masjid Qubbat az-Zūm; Arabic: مَسْجِد قُبَّة بَيْت ٱلزُّوْم, romanized: Masjid Qubbat Bayt az-Zūm) [1] [2] is a historical mosque and tourist attraction located in the Yemeni town of Jiblah.
Dome of the Ascension of Muhammad. The Dome of the Ascension (Arabic: قبة المعراج, romanized: Qubbat al-Miʿrāj; Hebrew: כִּיפָּת הַעֲלִיָּיה, romanized: Kippat Ha'Aliyah) is an Islamic free-standing domed structure built by the Umayyads that stands just north the Dome of the Rock on the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem.